I kinda like the Gandhi way, passive non-cooperation.  Or like that one
scene from Malcolm X where all the guys are in their suits, ties and hats
standing a quiet vigil outside the hospital.  Can you believe how unnerving
that must be?  I say get everyone to sit outside the capitol building, bring
signs, and camp out, for a long, long time.  Sit in your congressperson's
office for a long, long time.  Everyday.  Stare at them, they can't kick you
out for that can they?

Beth t the OT

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There has to be a third way, between doing safety-threatening but media
grabbing stunts like the extremists do and passive letter writing.

Mike

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Kat, what I'm going to say is not directed at you or anyone in
particular.
This is just my feeling about the subject of this kind of protesting in
general:

Forty one floors filled with people who's lives were endangered, and
whose
psychological health was damaged.  Excuse me, further damaged (ref: Sept
11
incident).  Nothing happen, unless you count some people wondering if
the
protesters were carrying weapons, bombs, or what the hell else now is
happening in New York, will I ever see my children again, etc.

Nothing but a little domestic terrorism happened that day...in New York.

One of the buildings they have protested in DC has a day care center.
The
last protest there that I am awere of saw protesters positioned
precisely at
the location where parents drop off and retrieve their children, not to
mention the primary means of egress that an estimated (NFPA life safety
code
reference) 50% (well over 50%, in my estimation, knowing the layout of
that
building) of the building occupants will use in the event of a need for
emergency evacuation.

Every group has its extremists.  Ours are going to cost us a lot by
continuing with this tactic after September 11.  I didn't have anything
good
to say for that kind of garbage before Sept 11.

The founding documents of the United States provides us with the legal
right
to assemble peacably.  We have the opportunity to gather in large
numbers to
make our point, if we feel that we need to do that, without making
anyone
feel threatened.