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PROTEST ~ PROTEST ~ DISSENT ~ DISSENT! ~ LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD ~ SILENTLY!

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Those of us who watch the events unfolding either at Tea Parties or Town Halls see an increasing agitation and frustration.  Constituents are growing more vocal as their ire is fueled by Washington ignoring the will and voice of the people.

The same type of passion exploded during the Viet Nam protests in the 1970's. Eventually frustration on both sides escalates and can lead to violence.  Kent State was a prime example of this. 

Recent union involvement by physically removing a protestor is a sign that more of the same is coming.  It is only natural; when some people are pushed they push back harder. Mob mentality may severely negate any progress we make getting our position heard.  We need to use a powerful message and make sure it is covered by the media.  Peaceful, committed, steadfast and a consistent widespread protest is what we need to do.

Instead of shouting we need to make a clear statement that is resounding, unified and unmistakable.  We need to deliver that message visually and silently.  The end result will speak volumes.

Here are my suggestions to make the most impact out of the meeting and visually get the message across.  Each attendee brings a placard or sign.  8x10 poster board is sufficient. One side printed with a huge YES and one side with a huge NO. 

Each attendee writes a letter to the legislator hosting the meeting before attending.  Identify the house bill or bills you are for or against.  If you are against the bill continue by telling the law maker that should they ignore your voice and vote in favor of the bill, you will work as hard as you can to see they are unseated in the next election.

Amongst yourselves prior to the meeting agree that you will make your protest visual and without yelling and screaming. Listen to the presentation silently and respectfully. Whoever in the group can get the floor during the Q&A should initiate a poll of the audience

The member of your group should ask the audience to show their vote by turning their placard.  The audience should raise high the appropriate vote they wish to cast.  YES OR NO!  Turn to the legislator and tell them to start counting and make a written record of the vote.  The vote should be used in combination with other votes the legislator has received.  Those communications are the will of the people.

IT IS THE JOB OF THE LEGISLATOR TO VOTE ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

The attendees may wish at that time to leave and not engage in further Q&A which just leads to heated exchanges.  Go out single file past the Dias and drop their written letter in front of the legislator. Make your point and leave the legislator looking at an empty room. Move to the outside and protest by showing your vote till the legislator leaves.

We need to avoid having our will dismissed as a bunch of disgruntled conspirators instigated by the Republican Party.

Organize your friends to attend tea parties and town hall meetings. Participate in Patriot marches. Organize pickets whereever your law makers live, work or congregate.  Do so peacefully but aggressively by virtue of sheer numbers.

Our history shows that massive protests during the civil rights movement and the Viet Nam War brought about significant change to our country. Learn by out past to peserve our future.

THIS IS THE KIND OF CHANGE WE CAN MAKE HAPPEN!

IN THE END - ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL CAN BE IMPEACHED

Comments (57)

Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Alice - that video was hysterical.  thank you  Guess dogs really are smarter than people.

Aug 11, 2009 03:31 PM
Bob Cumiskey
A1 Connection Realty, Inc. - Sun City Center, FL
US Army Retired, Your Sun City Center, Florida ~ Realtor

Alice, great video.  Now that is a really smart little dog.  You know what they say about a dog's intuition.

Aug 11, 2009 03:44 PM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Alice, I did watch most of Beck today. The tree was very interesting.  The cast of characters are even more interesting when you read what they have written and ascribe to.  Holden - Qualify Adusted Life Years for one,  Emanuel for another.  The concept that babies are not human,  These are the advisers he relies on for health care advice.  Forced sterilization and abortions.

We are truly on the brink of self destruction.  This whole thing is chilling.

Aug 11, 2009 03:46 PM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Ah Scott, so sorry for the typo.  Yeah - didn't you hear Obama today?  He talked about it.  You need to read more than the headlines.

Aug 11, 2009 03:50 PM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Terry, my sister is her own person. She can say what she pleases.  By the way Terry, you should have left that kind of repartee back in high school.  Only little kiddies and school girls talk that way.

Aug 11, 2009 03:53 PM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Oh Terry, math is not one of your strong suits.  Jayne joined in 2005 and has 7,000 points.  Terry joined in 2007 and has over 200K.

Seems you are too busy blogging to have time to work.  And you think you are DUE health care when you fritter away productive time you could be working a real job with benefits?

Aug 11, 2009 03:57 PM
Alice Linahan
Voices Empower - Argyle, TX

The quicker we understand who we are dealing with, the quicker we can get our country back.

Amazingly today on CNN-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbwde1iRLQ

Aug 11, 2009 04:33 PM
Alice Linahan
Voices Empower - Argyle, TX

Bonnie,

Sorry, I am on a role of finding some info that I thought you may not see else where.

I just posted on my blog a great analysis on the Health care bill from the Houston Tea Party Town Hall.

Texas Congressman Kevin Brady Explains the Obama Health Care Bill

Good night!!

Aug 11, 2009 05:26 PM
Bob Cumiskey
A1 Connection Realty, Inc. - Sun City Center, FL
US Army Retired, Your Sun City Center, Florida ~ Realtor

I'm sure Oregon state run health care didn't start out with the notion of death panels, but they have them now.  Cost effective medicine. 

Aug 12, 2009 12:08 AM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Bob, I saw a piece about a woman who was in her 60's diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  The state of Oregon would not pay for her health care but would pay for her Euthanasia.

All the gimmes of this country who think they are entitled to freebie health care only look at the immediate benefit to then. They do not look at the long range implications.  They are just out and out free loaders.

Obama in an interview on July 25 talking about health care and who will be treated said "maybe its better not to do surgery, maybe its better just to give them a pain killer".  Someone responsible for approving medical procedures is going to decide whether its better or not and who gets it. 

This is a quote from Ezekiel Emanuel the Dr advising Obama on health care:"Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."

 A further quote: "Wasteful interventions at the end of life are often driven by poor understanding of grandma's disease processes which leads to inflated treatment expectations. If given the appropriate information many patients and families would decide against expensive treatment options which carry little benefit."

Obama claims there will be no death panels making decisions about euthanasia.  Euthanasia will be accomplished by OMISSION.  Denying services to patients who are deemed no longer contributing to society.

These people in control of our government are whacko's.  They are a sick bunch.  It is looking more and more like pre-war Germany.

Aug 12, 2009 01:08 AM
Kevin Robinson
Twin Falls, ID
Fractional Developer

Bonnie- They are a sick bunch becuase they live in la-la land. They are treated like royalty and have not much to do with the common folk. They are way out of touch and they get that way on our dime.

Aug 12, 2009 02:32 AM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Kevin, Interesting to trace their rise to power.  Even more scary.  What choices do we have?  We can demand this legislation is defeated.  They will come back with some other back door legislation.  Impeachment sounds good to me.  The President, the Congress and the Senate are laughing at our efforts to have the will of the people mandated.

Interesting in Pa. Specter held meetings but Casey is not planning any. Guess he does not care what the people who elected him think.

Aug 12, 2009 04:36 AM
Jayne Vaughan
Re/Max Home Team - Clarks Summit, PA
ABR,SRS,CNE

One of the hallmarks of guerilla fighting is to anger an opponent and spur them into an overly-aggressive response. Republicans feel they did just that when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) penned an op-ed in USA Today. The Democratic duo argued that the town hall disruptions were "simply un-American" and accused Republicans of waging an "ugly campaign."

I wrote Nancy Pelosi and asked her when the Congress changed the First Amendment?

How dare she call us Un-American when we protest.  Yes, people should tone it down a bit but so many citizens are scared at the implications of where this is heading.  Just look at AARP. Obama said yesterday in NH that they were on board with the plan. 

Obama Claim of AARP Endorsement 'Inaccurate'

President Obama went too far when he said the seniors lobby had endorsed the legislation pending in Congress, the group's chief officer said Tuesday.

Congressman Kanjorski here in Pa does not have 1 town hall meeting planned.  He was quick to have them and webcasts during his re election campaign and he is very strangely silent.  Here in this part of PA there is a very high population of Seniors.  Wonder if that is why he won't come here?

http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/11/guerilla-warfare/#more-520

Aug 12, 2009 04:54 AM
Alice Linahan
Voices Empower - Argyle, TX

Hey Bonnie, I thought you and your readers would find this very interesting.

BUSTED!: "Obama As Hitler" Poster Was A Democrat/Union Plant At John Dingell Townhall! UPDATED with video interview!

Aug 12, 2009 06:29 AM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Thank you Alice - you are a wonderful contributor and great Patriot. 

Aug 12, 2009 07:28 AM
Alice Linahan
Voices Empower - Argyle, TX

Bonnie Thank you for your kind words. Here is another clip of peaceful hardworking Americans voicing their opinion.

As the president's planted crowd read soft-ball questions from a script for the president, so he could return scripted answers, and literal bus loads of pro-Obama protesters with the same shirt and the same manufactured signs emptied onto the green at Portsmouth High School in New Hampshire on August 11, 2009 to try to offset anti-Obama protesters, real New Hampshire residents and citizens from surrounding states came in groups of two at most in plain clothes with homemade signs to protest the farce that was going on inside the school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL7W24O1Dto

Aug 12, 2009 07:49 AM
Trey Thurmond
BCR Realtors - College Station, TX
College Station , Texas Homes

Alice ,

Soros is a premier example of what you referenced. Additionally this maniacal short seller has made billions here and overseas betting on our economy sucking wind. IE ..the worse we do the more he has benefitted. He could care less about America.

Bonnie,

Great Post!

Aug 12, 2009 02:52 PM
Jayne Vaughan
Re/Max Home Team - Clarks Summit, PA
ABR,SRS,CNE

Bonnie, you need your sister to come in and defend you?  This from Terry Haugen  in response to my commenting on this particular blog.

Terry

Who are you to deny me my right to FREE SPEECH?  I am my own person with my own opinions.  So you want to deny my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS??? 

This is not the playground Terry where a sibling has to protect the other.  We are grown women and very capable of speaking for ourselves. 

My commenting on her blog is my FREE SPEECH to add to the discussion and add my point of view.

Defend her?  What a laugh. ILMAO!!!!!!! 

Aug 14, 2009 03:27 AM
Kevin Robinson
Twin Falls, ID
Fractional Developer

Jayne- At some point you will end up like the rest of us and not even bother with responses to certain folks.

Aug 19, 2009 02:07 AM
Bonnie Vaughan
Scranton, PA
CNE SFR - Buyers/Sellers - Lackawanna & Surroundin

Kevin - Point taken.  (Jayne is my sister by the way)

Aug 19, 2009 03:05 AM