Posted on 06/12/2008 6:10:10 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
I have a plan to get the morons in DC to listen to us. I posted it earlier in passing, and it's a simple plan that would take some planning and prep, but it's not difficult. The key is to do it on a massive scale- I'm talking hundreds of thousands of people, probably throgh an email campaign, or getting it promoted through some kind of activist infratructure.
1> Organize a massive drive to DC on a Monday morning. Physically drive your car, truck, or even your fleet of semis (if you have one) into the city. Yes, there will be a HUGE traffic jam, and if we're lucky, it will extend way past the beltway.
2> At 12 noon, wherever you are, put your vehicle into park and shut it off.
3> Issue a demand to Congress to lift all drilling restrictions and refinery contruction roadblocks, and demand legislation funding hundreds of nuke plants. Tax credits for investing in alternative energy research would be nice too.
4>Refuse to leave until this happens. (Bring lots of water and non-perishable food. Coleman stoves would be recommended.)
We would shut that city down IMMEDIATELY.
This is not for the faint of heart. We will lose money and time. It will be hot and very uncomfortable, possibly for days.
But I think it would work.
If hundreds of thousands of us drive into DC, cause a huge traffic jam, and we all shut off our cars at 12 noon on a Monday and just stay there until drilling and refining restrictions are lifted, and new nuke plants are funded, we’ll be heard. They can’t tow that many cars. We’ll shut that place down.
If a tow truck shows up, DRIVE AWAY and smile.
The idea of raising the hood is to tell the other drivers that you are having mechanical difficulties. Just wiggle a wire and Ole Betsy will start right up again. Then you close the trunk after stowing the greasy rag in the metal tool box. Be sure to hook the clasps. Every second counts when you are trying to stop traffic. Close the hood, wave to everybody that it’s fine now. Drive up half a block and pull over. Let everybody drive on by while you make a call on the cell phone.
Then on the next half hour do it all over again at a different busy intersection.
Depending on the size of the city this could be very effective and you wouldn’t even have to know who else is involved in it. I used to drive through little one horse towns where if just one car stopped in the lane for five minutes during rush hour the traffic would have backed up for three miles.
Give me a date and I'll be there. And I can't afford the $300 dollars in gas either.
Dave Elswick, the program director and afternoon talk host on KARN News Radio here in central Arkansas is currently working on a banner program, but has mentioned a few times the prospect of a “march on Washington” or something similar. I am fairly confident he be interested in some sort of action.
Be as pissed off as you want, but making the little guy the whipping boy for the Congress, who are the real people behind the problem is a raw, rotten deal and I wouldn't have any part of that.
don;t well=don’t sell
“They can’t tow that many cars.”
Tow, no. But pick up with a forklift and put on a flatbed? Fifty or sixty an hour for two flatbeds. Pick up with a forklift and dump sideways on the sidewalk, even faster.
Perhaps the focus should not be on cities. Perhaps interstates and bridges? But that’s bordering on terrorism, and may be seen as terrorism (grave financial harm, interfering with interstate commerce) and trigger Patriot Act responses.
Even doing this in cities could be risky in that manner. I’ve never liked it when the left vows to “shut down a city” as they are promising to do in Denver.
A big people-based demonstration with drums and horns is more my style. The “shut the city down” falls into the Alinsky Rules For Radicals when you don’t have enough people for a big display, called “stink up the place”.
The SCOTUS seems to be dragging its' feet on another issue, Bob. Their ruling on the Constitutionality of the DC gun-ban law was due last April.
As the issue was phrased, the SCOTUS was to decide if the Second Ammendment meant an individual right to keep and bear arms. Read my tag line. I put it up when the case went to the SCOTUS quite a while ago.
Interesting times, folks .............. FRegards
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I might have missed it, but if you are going to do it in the 50 states, think about doing it during a recess, so the congress critters will be in state and have to answer you in person...........LOL or some thing like that.
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