Lights Off! Wednesdays to express your disgust with this administration.

[marmar]

BLACKOUT OF NATIONAL SHAME
Submitted by danielifearn on Thu, 2006-06-29 18:24. IFPJ


BLACKOUT OF NATIONAL SHAME

Can it be true? Are there still people out there who still support George Bush and his administration? What do they need to see the light? A conversion experience? The Face of God?

So be it. Humans have seen the divine in the night sky from the earliest times. Humans have looked to the stars to discover their destinies. Even, George Bush is reaching for the heavens in the midst of the most colossally astronomically costly war ever; he wants to put a man on Mars. What is he looking for there? Peace? Clean air?

Let’s look at the stars, too. Let’s turn out our lights and reveal just who is in the majority. It’s been all too easy for the pollsters, pundits, politicians and the pharisees to ignore the truth. Insulated by privilege and protected by lackeys the have refused to see. The have refused to look. Like a couple of monkeys, they see no evil and hear no evil. And, it doesn’t matter that we can see them doing evil and hear them speaking evil.

In a childlike, though in no sense innocent, way then think they can hide their misdeeds and none will know. Like a baby playing peekaboo: I can’t see you, you must not be able to see me. Like a child holding his hands to his ears and screaming: I don’t hear you, therefore you must go away. These people live in a magical kingdom where only they matter and everybody else has no existence except as they serve as markers in some horrible game.
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We will turn off our lights in order that they may see. They will see how few in number they are. And, you will see how many other are like you. The Blackout of National Shame isn’t a magic bullet. Counterintution doesn’t mean stupid. But, it’s one more step in the right direction.

Please participate. Turn your lights off once a week on Wednesdays from 9 to 9:30 PM. You’ll save some money and decrease, in some negligible amount, the production of greenhouse gases. That will make Bush unhappy and must surely reward the effort. Turn off your lights (leaving the motion detector on, is probably O.K.). Ask everyone you know to turn their lights off. Take that one step in the right direction-one step; out the front door to look at the stars. Look at the stars and marvel at humanity and the universe. And maybe you’ll see our future written there.

More at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/12572

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Don't think it wll make much difference...if any

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/blackout.htm

[marmar]

2. True. But it's the whole symbolic thing...

and maybe your Repug neighbors will wonder why your lights are going off for a half hour each Wednesday.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. People in this little town won't notice

Repug or not. :( And my neighbors here don't really pay much attention to something like that, except for my next door neighbor, and that's only when I ask her to keep an eye on things when I go out of town...and since she knows I'm home, she won't bother to pay attention either.

The only way for people to notice the lights out thing would be to have the media make a big deal about it...and even then, who knows how many will take it seriously... :shrug:

[katty]

4. even with my lights out, the only stars I will see in LA will be on E!

[marmar]

6. LOL....

I know what you mean. I was visiting a friend in LA and we were on top of a hillside at Universal Studios, and he pointed north and said that's the valley. I had to take his word for it because all I could see was orange air.

[katinmn]

5. Yeah! I'll do it. I'm ashamed of the pResident.

[meisje]

7. Who thinks up this crap?

The idea is stupid. Why don't we all just paint our car tires blue. That way, when we drive around, we'll all see each other and the our Govt will continue to not give a fuck.

If you want to save money, install fluorescents

[Catherine Vincent]

8. I'd rather "Lights Out" night.

Knock the 'lights out' on a Republican. :-)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. Tell Ya What. I'll Turn My Lights Out EVERY DAY From 11:45 PM Till 7:00 AM

Except on weekends. On weekends it might be from 1:00 AM or so.

Fair enough?

[Brazenly Liberal]

10. Around here, the lights are almost always out from 9 to 9:30 pm

Farm country. Early to bed and early to rise and all that. it would draw more attention if we turned the lights on, but we get up at 3:30, so that's not gonna happen.

Good luck,though! It would be a very dramatic effort if you can get it going.

[marmar]

11. I thought you were going to say "I'm in Iraq."

But that would be "lights on" from 9-9:30 p.m., since that's about all the electricity they get. :)