Under NO circumstances do I advocate violence, whether by those I oppose or against them.
Now that the MSM and the spineless GOP have turned up the volume on teh crazies, many sane people are beginning to fear for the worst. While we must remain better than them, we cannot be silent and hope for the right to become reasonable. These people need to be taught to be ashamed, of what they say and do, and ashamed of who they represent.
Let's give them a hand.
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Sadly, the chief culprits know no shame. Morning joe, Hannity, JTP and Co. do not see the damage they have wrought with regressive ideals that benefit the rich and no one else. Their trickle down, county first dream has evaporated, yet they still wish to remain asleep.
Therefore, the task falls upon us to WAKE PEOPLE UP!
It is time to bring back all the tools we used in this last campaign. That is how we can fight back against the We Surround Them fantasy of Faux Populism. We can accomplish this by . . .
- Calling all our neighbors, friends and family to alert them of the violent psychotic rhetoric being throw about.
- Call CNBC, Fox News, Rush Limpbaugh's show. Flood their phonelines, jam their systems. Ask them who their sponsors are and call them to tell them we will divest from their companies and boycott their products until the people behind this are removed from their jobs, and are replaced with responsible journalists.
- Call all the members of Congress and demand they renounce this sham and any others who wish for the demise of our union and future. Tell them you are a journalist and will be reporting their yes/no/no comments as their official responses.
- Write letters to your local newspapers, write letters and post them at schools and universities. Our youth must stand for their futures and against this manipulation.
- Knock on doors. Get out there and effect people. Ask them the tough questions about what these agent-provacetuers are suggesting. Make them pick the non-violent side. Tell them that silence is appeasement, and not an option.Give them contact information for the authorities and encourage them to not be silent in the face of violent lunatics.
- Open accounts on rightwing blogs and politely remind our political adversaries that, should anything happen, the blood will be on THEIR HANDS.
- If you hear anything spoken about violence towards others, tell that person that you will call the police.
- Cancel your cable. Hit them where it hurts, in their pockets. This community is large enough where this kind of action can ,ake a BIG impact. Tell the agent who closes your account that you are doing so as an act of protest.
- Buy a sharpie pen and desecrate publications and public ads that sponsor and support businesses owned by News Corp and GE, as well as any ads for Morning Joe, Fox News, Jim Cramer and their ilk. Add your own message to tell those around you that this is wrong and those who act those way should be ashamed of themselves.
- Protest against the tea parties. If they march down the street unopposed they win. If they march down the street we should march down the other side of the street. They want to make it look like they have everyone's support. If we march against them we can shatter that illusion.
- Use creativity against ignorance. If they make signs, we make better signs. If they hold rallies, we should hold bigger rallies. We are the majority, it is time we started acting like it. This can be done with respect to liberty and free speech. Our dissent will drown out the bleeting of their sheep.
We should wear top hats and monocles, we should turn our pockets inside out as we protest. We should march in front their tv stations and their political offices, and we should block traffic when we do it.
Be creative. Be smart. We are smarter than them, our ideas are better. Why don't we stand up for those ideas?
- Pie. When a public figure disgraces their office or company we should embarrass them publicaly. I suggest pie.
If we appease these lunatics, if we are silent, we are just as responsible as they are. We are just as responsible as the next person when it comes to guarding our freedoms, whether that other person is with us or against us.
Appeasement is not an option. We can not appease the lunatics. They are fundamentalists who have divorced themselves from reality. They will not stop, and neither should we.
In Germany in the 1930's students who opposed the rising fascist party would wear shirts that said "We will not be silent!"
Before the next generation of madmen become any more encouraged, we should act now.
Please include your comments and suggestions below.
Thank you,
MOT
PEACE
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