Copied to me by Gregory Hill, an email he sent to Insty:
To follow up on the message you posted from Robert Mayer:
I think there are two dates that need to be focused on for the big protests: April 15th and July 4th.
It has been mentioned before that holding massive protests around the country on Tax Day and basically shutting down the main post offices would be quite symbolic. I agree. Can you imagine the tremor this would send through the nation, in particular in our elected government officials? It would be dramatic as hell. We could easily get millions of people to do this if there is enough preparation. And with social networking tools like Facebook really taking off, this gets much easier. We just need a good team of people to take charge and do some coordinating. It doesn’t have to be a lot. Just enough to get the grass roots movement in momentum, and making sure there are qualified people at each of the major protests to handle the press, and give speeches. One of your correspondents brought that up last week, I think, and it is extremely valid.
Independence Day should be reserved for the DC rally. This needs to be huge. There was much smoke blown about Obama’s Crowning Inauguration. Initial estimates were upwards of 5 million people who were going to attend. Didn’t happen. Over a million is still good, but we can do better. We should organize a march on DC that literally shuts the entire city down. I know, given the fury that seems to be evident, that this can happen. We could pull in 5 million if we set our minds to it. I’d do it, and I don’t protest. But I’m mad enough to do it, and I think a whole hell of a lot of people are.
Of course, having said this, maybe I’m playing too small. Maybe those dates are too far in the future. Given the robust turnout you’ve been blogging today, maybe we need to strike while the iron is hot. If the next month follows this momentum, then Tax Protest Day may happen in March!
Here’s hoping.
Considering they’ve got an apparently unlimited number of asswipes at the Guardian, this is easy for them to say.
Un-Liberaled Woman has some pics from the Chicago Tea Party.
“We just need a good team of people to take charge and do some coordinating. …”
Sounds like a job for a community organizer. Maybe there’s enough stimulus money going to ACORN to get a grant. Yeah, that’ll happen.
Cordially…and maybe First!
I attended the Dallas Tea Party and I will estimate that 200 folks were there. We did get live local TV news coverage too. I spoke with a handful of people who, like me, are furious and all were for marching on Washington, D.C. in March. I do not know how we get millions of people to go to DC other than to say, “I’m going, how about you”?
JAR, are you on Facebook, yet?
I like my let’s break shit idea better.
Hmmm. A post-office shutdown on April 15? You just might be able to get me to one of those.
Yeah, I want to get me a giant O! head and set stuff on fire, maybe turn some Priuses over on their sides.
let’s make shit
and then break it
did someone leave a cake out in the rain?
stomp!
We got anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 here in St. Looie today.
My wife and I were also at the one in Dallas. The crowd estimate is about right; possibly 25-50 more. I know because I (green sweater white shirt) was one of the ones (2-3 total) working the clipboard signing people up for alerts on the next one and I got 140 entries.
RTO had asked me if I wanted to go and I was busy. (Who schedules these things during working hours? not that I was working, but RTO didn’t make it either.) anyhoo, he asks that you put him on the list for the next one.
I’ll do that, Maggie.
And scheduling during working lunch hours was part of the point. Unlike whore and the rest of the Left’s professional whiners, we have real jobs.
Any of you guys new at protestin’? April 15 at the Post Office is so lame, so old, LaRouche’s people were doing it before the Libertarians made it a yearly ordeal. It’s, like, pre-kooked. Nobody not already in the club is going to take it seriously–and besides, most returns are filed on-line now, so there’s not often an angry line-up of waiting, pissed-off customers. Sorry, old as Mickey Rooney saying “I know, kids! We’ll put on a show!” Why not just sell flowers at the airport?
By summer, the situation will have evolved somewhat. Just yelling and putting on a freak show is not going to be enough. There has to be an element–deniable, unidentifiable–of actual intervention, proving an ability to do something “bad,” a threat to the unicorn world that would upset civilians at their breakfast. Think of what could be done, nonviolently, to upset the workings of the dream. Short out a Prius? Start an unapproved oil well, in the courthouse square? Bonfire?
How about traffic jams–not downtown, but at real highway junctions.
The highway junctions in Dallas already create their own traffic jams without any help. That’s only because a lot of them are all screwed up to start with.
Who’s the idiot that built that TX 114, TX 121, IH 635 interchange at the north end of DFW airport? The sadistic moron needs to hang. Preferably at the end of a rope.
So, you’re saying I should leave my brand-new tinfoil beanie at home?
Dang it.