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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:49 PM
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Poll question: What will it take to get the majority of Americans into the streets?
I'm not just talking about the people who have been protesting the last couple of years. I'm talking about the people who have been sitting back, either ignoring the whole thing or un-energized.
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:50 PM
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1. FREE BEER!!!
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:51 PM
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2. 4 more years of bu$h
Most will be losing their homes.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:51 PM
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3. 4. Hunger
Not sure anything else will do it.
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:52 PM
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4. if Paris Hilton tells them to
this is a celebritized society.
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purduejake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:54 PM
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5. $20 DVD players.
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FogerRox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:55 PM
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6. John Kerrys speach on Jan. 5th
My Mission: TARGET CBS

Join the protest @ CBS in NYC or protest in DC--If enough Peeps show @ CBS I will extend the efforts to other outlets, Like ABC & NBC.

Power to the People ! !! ! ! RIght On Brother KIP ! !! !

http://www.51capitalmarch.com /
roger@51capitalmarch.com /

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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:57 PM
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7. self-delete
Edited on Thu Dec-30-04 03:58 PM by intheflow
Somehow this posted twice (see below).
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:57 PM
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8. I voted "1 or 2" but in reality
I have to admit that the detention of a family member might not get the people into the streets. It will only make people more fearful. If imprisionment of family members were enough to get people into the streets, we'd have seen more revolutions and protests from peoples in China, Russia, Vietnam, and other places around the world where political dissidents have "disappeared."
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:58 PM
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9. None of the above... it would take long, long
breadlines, no jobs, loss of property and other severe depression like conditions.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:15 PM
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14. and for a failure of TV broadcasts
no sports?
no 'reality' shows?
no shopping networks?

THAT would make Americans ready to rumble
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:20 PM
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16. nah.. not if they still had their xbox and gameboys
always someother diversions waiting to take over...
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:27 PM
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20. LOL you're right
and that's pretty sad, isn't it?
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:28 PM
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21. but make food hard to come by,
make it next to impossible to buy that new dress... make folks unable to replace dying cars... THEN lets talk.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:04 PM
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10. Make SUV's illegal? Take away their Playstations? :) n/t
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Blue Christmas Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:09 PM
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11. I think a draft might do it
Although I guess that could go under the category of harm or detention of a family member.
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readmylips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:09 PM
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12. None of the Above....
Americans are such cowards, dumb, fat and brainwashed. Not even if God himself came down to tell them that bush is a fraud, would they wakeup. They'll probably string him up from the highest Southern tree and drag his body through the mud attached to their pickup truck.
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:24 PM
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17. American would certainly riot itf tehy believed that Bush had caused 911
or stolen the election. But they don't believe those things.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:35 PM
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22. that's the way I vote
nothing short of the Second Coming,combined with a news blackout on Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson
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info being Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:12 PM
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13. A chance of winning a new car?
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melissinha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:18 PM
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15. If he preempted coverage of the Super Bowl
DUDE! If people were denied a second of their precious Super Bowl... it would be all over for SuperSchmuck!
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whalerider55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:24 PM
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18. $20 bills
lots of them.
dropped from helicopters.

whalerider55
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:26 PM
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19. when they see lots of Waco's and Ruby Ridges...
coming theatres very very near you.

bush will Never be proven to be behind 911 - let's not forget who owns the microphones.
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melissinha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 04:37 PM
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23. Reestablish prohibition right before the Super Bowl
I know I know.. I think the key is either football or beer. Seriously, if it could be orchestrated that Bush is at fault for a beer shortage or some news connected to him were to preempt the Super Bowl.... it would SERIOUSLY be OVER.
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