If Howard Dean and others called fro a massive Protest Rally to Protest

[Perky]

Bush and his evil war...... in Mid February on a Saturday morning would you take off work and come to Washington?

[ellisonz]

1. Why do you think Howard Dean has not called for a Massive Protest Rally?

That's the real question.

:hide: :popcorn:

[BayCityProgressive]

2. Because they know

a lot of the Left would be there protesting the Dems as well..

[Lilith Velkor]

4. Howard Dean has *shit to do.*

All a Massive Protest Rally does is tie up traffic downtown, and nobody gives a shit because 1) they happen every goddamn month or so and 2) they take place during weekends, so the message meant for politicians only gets sent to tourists.

That's my A.N.S.W.E.R. (ha ha)

[ellisonz]

8. Good post!

:rofl:

[Just-plain-Kathy]

3. The news isn't covering protest marches

they say, "it would be against the troops".

I answered, Honest probaly not...but if there were a draft, I'd find a way to get there.

[tnlurker]

5. The only way protest will work

The only way protest will work is if it is on a weekday and it clogs up the business of the city.

Here is the way it would work:
Call for a protest for a weekday that most state capitals are in session. This is usually in the early spring for most states.

Have people leave their cars and trucks parked in the streets near the capital buildings. Ask Farmers and semi drivers to converge on the capitals with big equipment.

Plan on staying a couple of days.

This would disrupt commerce and government work.

The media could not ignore protest in fifty state capitals at the same time. Local stations would at least cover the local events.

Everybody would know that we are serious.

It would show that we are united across the country. That would scare the powers-that-be the most.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Dean already organized a massive protest.

It was last November. Millions of Americans, mostly Democrats, showed up.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Maybe. But I'd prefer a national "buy-out" day.

An economic statement would have more resonance politically than yet another massive march on Washington.

One day. Nationwide. The agenda is "end the war". Period.

No one buys. No one sells.

*Anything*.

The MSM can report it or not. Either way, it will bite them on the behind.

*Hard*.

[Perky]

9. Bite who on the Behind?

How does that effect the course of the war?

[Virginia Dare]

10. The corporate dictators...

they'd sit up and notice. Do you think Wal-Mart would take losing a whole day, say a Saturday of retail business? Of course, all of the freepers would be out shopping like good little Nazi soldiers.

[Perky]

11. But why ding retailers and their employees

because of Bush's war It is not their fault.

[Virginia Dare]

12. Who does a massive protest and rally hurt?

it just forces the people of D.C. to be inconvenienced, costing them millions of extra dollars in police and other services, businesses have to shut down, the war is certainly not the fault of the people of D.C., so what does that really accomplish? :shrug:

[Perky]

13. I don't disagree with that

I just want to understand the value of a Buy-out

[Virginia Dare]

14. Since the chimp in chief keeps imploring us to shop...

I figure why not do the opposite, that prospect really seems to frighten him for some reason, I figure the biggest base of power the American public has right now is their pocket books, since consumerism is the only thing that's keeping this economy from sinking completely. I really don't have any answers though.

All I know is, shutting down D.C. for a day will barely register a ripple among the Republican power elite, they'd love to hurt the D.C. economy for a day, as it is 90 percent Democratic.

Hell, a snowstorm does that on average of once a year.