Reply #6: re quality of support [View All]

[DebJ]

This was the first time I attended a public rally of any type. I had anticipated that the speakers would provide more concrete information then what we heard yesterday. With TV coverage on CSPAN, what a lost opportunity to actually present some hard core facts. Even if only 100 people chanced to hear new facts....well, I don't think even that happened yesterday.

I would have like a speaker to have had a banner and a speech educating people along the lines of:

Bill of Rights:
On the left of the banner, a list of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Amendments, etc
On the right of the banner, a list of infractions of these amendments by the current government, and references to where these facts can be verified

Media Sources of Information:
Most of the 'common man in the streets' that I meet have no idea how tightly controlled our media is (and how much did the media financially gain from Bush's tax cuts?)

ETC, ETC
The American public will not march until the American public gets facts.

In the Declaration of Independence, it says that our government should
'derive its just powers from the consent of the governed'. But true consent requires facts, information, data! Not simply emotional statements, which was what the rally was almost solely about. Although I could relate to what was said, that was only because I ALREADY have SOME info (but want more,more, more). For example, I understood the one speaker's Venezuela references....but people who just tuned in to CSPAN...what did they know or learn??