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demwing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 09:53 PM
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Burning W's
Would it be considered a threat to the President to construct large wooden W's and burn them?

I think the image of thousands of burning W's across the country is beautiful.

I'm not encouraging anyone to do it, but if you do--or if you just happen to run across any photographs of such large, wooden, burning w's--send them to me, I'll host them.

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GetTheRightVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 09:54 PM
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1. It sounds like a good ideal, I wonder how it would go over here ??
Edited on Sat Dec-18-04 09:54 PM by GetTheRightVote
in the south I mean, lol.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 10:12 PM
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2. Call it a "W lighting" and say that you're honoring the "W"
they'll buy it.
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demwing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 10:17 PM
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5. Like the Burning Man Celebration?
in New Mexico?

Yeah. Its a celebration!
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 08:41 AM
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16. More like the burning bush. It'll confuse the fundies.
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demwing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 10:16 PM
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3. Because the south loves Bush?
Or because of the negative assocuiations with things that burn in the south.

I have to say I didn't even think that at first. i was actually thinking about the 231st anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which just took place on December 16th.

"Hmmm..." I thought to myself, "We can't dump Bush into the harbor, nor do I want to dump anything into any body of water. That's nasty"

"What if we burned something?"

Then the idea came.

I'd like to do it. I'd like to do it publically, somwhere where thousands will see it. Somewhere where the nightly news might catch it.
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 10:45 PM
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6. The nightly news is useless to us - they will talk about gnats and miss
miss Godzilla
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 10:17 PM
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4. I'd think it was a mad, mad world.
It would rile some people that's for sure. But since such a thing could be a bit of a disturbance, I do wonder how the local authorites would handle it. And the local press.
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 10:58 PM
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7. Get one of those stupid "W: The President" signs and burn it!
I think I'm going to pick up an "F the President" sticker and put it on my car.
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indigonation Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 11:12 PM
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8. Really like your idea...but consider
that didn't the KKK burn crosses in the name of Christianity because they thought they were righteous? So by burning W's, with the same distorted logic, wouldn't it be seen as a tribute to the *?

I love your idea of civil disobedience, I'd just want to make sure the message was correctly interpreted. Burning an effigy of * is unmistaken, although not as clever as your idea.
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UTDemocrat8204 Donating Member (114 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 12:24 AM
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9. I'd do the
sign burning in a little private ceremony. :)
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demwing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 02:08 AM
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12. thats whay I like the idea of a series of W's going up in smoke
A single W, nobody will understand.

10 or 20, people will speculate

100 or 1000, people will get the message.

Especially if they were coordinated somehow, like on the night of Bush's innauguration?

You know, some people may misunderstand, and think it's an anti-War mesage.

But thats OK too :)
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Griffy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 12:35 AM
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10. PLZ.. its the burning bush.. nt
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sundancekid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:52 AM
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15. much needed hilarity ... good one!
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 12:39 AM
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11. Actually, if the KKK claims to be KKKhristians, but burn crosses......
....then wouldn't burning "W's" be considered the highest showing of respect, as the new Freeper/Klan Messiah, at least in their fucked up sheet covered heads?
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demwing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 01:46 AM
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13. kick
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:30 AM
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14. Not to make a pun, but isn't "the burning bush" a religious omen?
Can't remember if it was good or bad. Anyone?
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Mabeline Donating Member (210 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 11:28 AM
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17. I dunno, what would happen if a repub neighbor saw it and called the SS..
I mean the secret service. They may take it as a threat.
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KSAtheist Donating Member (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 01:37 PM
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18. Haha.
I'm reminded of the Revenge of the Nerds, for some reason.
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