Posted on 10/17/2009 7:49:48 PM PDT by Velveeta
They had a blurb about it on CBS news tonight here in Houston. Of course, Miss Smart Aleck Anchorette was trying everyway she knew how to discredit them.
Would only work if it could be organized: not easy.
Not impossible.
Not a bad idea.
Overdue actually.
Check out these photos from the “Can you hear us now?” rally in front of KCRA 3 Sacramento. No media coverage! http://wp.me/pCuTu-1O
WorldNetDaily’s reporter missed us, but New York City had a few hundred protesters who protested outside of CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox, and ABC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D61MqbzN6Cs
Excellent!
Great photos - signs! Good job!
(I wasn’t there) but WRAL.com news reported “dozens” of protesters at their (local ABC affiliate) locale.
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/6230588/
Saw the report yesterday at their website but could not find it today! (except through Google).
Figures.
About two dozen protesters gathered in front of The Boston Globe yesterday as part of “Operation: Can You Hear Us Now,’’ protests in cities nationwide against what is called a liberal bias in major media. As cars drove by, the group held signs bearing slogans including “Watchdogs, Not Lapdogs.’’ “All we want is the Boston Globe to report the truth,’’ protester Edie Lekites said. She said media like the Globe and the ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN television networks have ignored Tea Party protests against President Obama.” boston.com/yourtown/medford/articles/2009/10/18/governor_losing_sleep_over_budget_crisis/
And to prove the protester’s point, the Globe only reported (I searched) on the war protest as Copley Sq, ignoring the Tea Party protest on Boston Common, which was about the same size.
I’m up to doing whatever it takes to ensure my children live free.
Bsically, the idea is to overflow the “system” and force it to break. Sure, most of us won’t get anything for our application but the sheer number of applications and all the detail that follows has apparently of itself broken some Euro welfare systems. Plus, if only 2 percent of us actually got benefits of some kind, that might be enough to bust the system altogether. Let’s face it, this entire Marxist construct of Obama’s is probably hanging by a more slender thread than even we think (just as it has everywhere else in the world it has been tried).
Anyway, clearly (LOL), I don’t have a fully fleshed out idea. But, my point here is—
In the end, you have to make the opponent pay so dear a price that it is not worth it to them. Or, we have to just completely dismantle the system in some manner not yet thought of.
I know there are even ways to win by losing. Imagine a way of attacking the Yankees’ propensity to buy all the best players and thus the championship: all the other teams agree to lose every game they play against the Yankees, all 162 games. In due course, no one would attend or watch the Yankees on TV with the outcomes predetermined, and the Yankees would have no way to make back the money. They would go broke “winning.”
I loved participating in the Cardin townhall protest here in Md. and 9/12 in DC but even as I had my fun I knew that the new silent majority was sitting at home counting its food stamps or SS disability or other bennies, and no matter how big our rally was we could never bring the numbers to bear that the far left and mush-headed middle can and will. In 2008, our opponents proved they could actually nominate the Republican candidate too, not just the Dem. Where elections and democracy are concerned, that’s Game Over.
You are referring to what is known as the Cloward-Piven strategy, named for two Marxist sociologists of the sixties/early seventies.
Cloward-Piven is decades-old strategy for collapsing the middle class into the leftie proteltariat. It follows from Gramsci and that Alinsky guy to some extent.
What I was referencing was something that just had occured in a European social democracy last year—where a welfare system went belly-up merely by the weight of the applicants to it.
I’ll have to look it up. It sounded like something that could be replicated here.
OK. I can’t find the thing about Europe but here’s an article that, with some extrapolation, demonstrates what I am saying.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/26/food_aid_sign_ups_flooding_mass/
In brief, when 100,000 new people applied for food stamps in Mass. in 2008, it represented a 20 percent increase (to 600,000) the number of recipients in the state.
It also DOUBLED the time required to process a food stamp request from two weeks to one month. I don’t know what the population of Mass. is but if there were 1 million conservatives there willing to apply for food stamps next Thursday, the entire system might break by November 1.
My point is, instead of rallying at a designated time and place with a homemade sign and lots of enthusiasm, we all show up at the local welfare office at a given time and apply. And BOING! goes the system.
You are indeed on to something.
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