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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:21 PM
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I do hope everyone is watching the protesters at the health care town halls

and learning. This is how you fight something. I hope it's not for a long time but the odds are there will be more republican presidents and we will be the ones trying to stop something. And like I said this is how you fight something.
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:23 PM
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1. I disagree. I think this makes them look nuts. It's OTT with the intimidation and violence.
I'm half expecting them to bring molotov cocktails to the next one.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:25 PM
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3. Exactly what you want your opponents to think you will do.

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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:26 PM
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4. Why?
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:27 PM
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5. To help cause them to do what you want them to do or to not do what you don't want them to do.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:23 PM
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2. What, do you recommend being a big asshole and shouting people down?
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:27 PM
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6. They are resorting to violence and death threats. You think that's what we should do?
I absolutely disagree.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:28 PM
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7. WE get arrested when we do it
THEY get coddled.

Any questions?
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Dems2002 Donating Member (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:31 PM
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8. Absolutely NOT
I support passionately fighting something, and I believe we can take a lesson in coordinating attendance to these sessions. (I'm a bit embarrassed that their numbers are better than ours.)

But I absolutely DO NOT AGREE with their tactics. Their purpose is to stifle debate, and they are armed with lies, misinformation and distortions that keep people misinformed and from learning the truth.

I do believe that controlled confrontation and Civil Disobedience has its place, unfortunately, the media is as much OUR enemy as it appears to be the right's ally.

But these people are making me frightened for the state of our democracy. These people are scary. And the fact that the companies are just running roughshod over the people with impunity frightens me enormously.

We need to take our country back from these powerful people. I'm not sure if that's going to be possible, but I can hope.

JR

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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 07:41 PM
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9. Only if we can get the sucky corporatist media to cover it ...
the way they've doted on the antics of the astroturfers.
Some LIBERAL media!
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 08:03 PM
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10. Observation
The black community is staying out of this mess, very smart, they know non violence wins. They are working very hard behind the scenes. Let these goons destroy themselves.
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madamesilverspurs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 08:32 PM
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11. I attended one of THEIR rallies this morning.
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