BLOODLESS REVOLT

It's a known fact to most people in this country its illegal to revolt against our government. Boing! So why even consider it since there are so many more juicy ways to revolt. "So if ya can't revolt against government," you ask "What the heck you talking about?" The forgotten PRIVATE SECTOR is exactly what I'm talking about. What do you think would happen if a few ten millions of people banded together and decided to, or forget to: Forget to pay credit card bills..or better yet refuse to pay...or even better yet file bankruptcy. These totally unregulated credit card folks that can decide to change your interest from 10% to 30 or more percent on a whim deserve what they get. Sell all stocks and bonds convert to cash and watch for falling objects from the upper floor windows on Wall Street on the evening news. Close all checking and savings accounts and convert to cash and watch the bankers run around like crazed rats. Shop only at locally owned stores and not spend a dime at the large national/international chain stores. This would include fast food chains. Let McDonald's managers try to explain why business fell to zero for 60 days. Band together and buy only one brand of gasoline and let the others wither on the vine. Mass sick outs. Empty offices and other workplaces tend to impress managers and CEO's. Watch the nations that import to this country start screaming too when their import products sit idly on their loading docks or on ships. I could add dozens of ideas on how the common ordinary people, the rightful owners, can win back the United States and do it within 60 to 90 days. The people have the power, they've always had the power "but they just don't know how to use it" the way the slick politicians and even slicker corporate leaderships do. Its our own fault that we've let a private/public sector(s) oligarchic plutocracy steal this nation away from us. If we the ordinary American citizens did what I suggest what could they do but sue, and the cost for attornies and filing fees alone, for businesses suing tens of millions of people in default would bankrupt the businesses suing the millions of us even if they won. What would happen if what I have suggested is done enmass by the ordinary people would be these private enterprise corporations storming Washington D C and screaming for political head on platters. Now this may be considered playing dirty pool, but what has either government or the private sector big boys done lately for America and the workers that pay the taxes and make the businesses run, aside start a war, give billions away in no bid contracts, union busting, ship American jobs overseas, and raise the price of vehicle fuels which drives up the prices of everything else due to outrageous tranport costs. Its up to "us" millions to decide who runs things. Its either 'us" the tens of millions of ordinary American citizens or its up to "us" again, to selfishly and gutlessly continue to let the less than 20,000 oligarchic plutocrats, each having more money that any 100,000 ordinary people really need, run this nation six feet under ground. This, one way or the other, is the price WE WILL pay to truly be free from "OUR" own tyranic oppressors. Freedom from oppresors or be ruled by oppressors. I've in part pointed the way to the citizens regaing control. Now its our choice. Sincerely, Tom Pearson thomas_pearson46@hotmail.com

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Submitted by ahapxnct on December 2, 2005 - 3:11am.

I like this train of thinking... mostly because it's oriented along class lines... what you're suggesting is what organized labor, or national popular organizations (or both), might work towards in a functioning democratic society. The US isn't, and changing that should be the primary goal of activists right now, IMHO.

Actually what I'm suggesting

Submitted by TomP46 on December 2, 2005 - 10:13am.

Actually what I'm suggesting and am working for is the formation of a third major political party for thinking class citizens that are fed up with being led down the garden path.

Have you (in this text "you" is stated generically) ever personally chosen a candidate to run for any political office?

In 99.999% of instances, and unless you are a local, state, or party elite insider the answer to the above queation is no.

How many times have you either heard or even said to yourself "I'm sick and tired of voting for the lesser of two evils." I know I have hundreds of times.

One of the most unrecognized or ignored issues in politics is the fact that not even half voter age citizens vote in elections period.

It is not lack of political interest or apathy that causes this. It is a loss of faith in the Democratic and republican parties to do the right and honest thing.

Far too many in the Democratic and republican parties have been, are, or will become corrupt. This is documented fact not conjecture, though admittedly there is less corruption among the Democrats than the republicans...for now at least because it depends on which party is currently in power that determines this. And as long as big lobby can wave unlimited monies around even the most honest among us has a number turning us from statemen to bought puppet and the lobbiests will keep upping their monitary offers until "that" number is found.
This too is a documented fact.

What I hope to see before I die is a party where candidates are chosen by a process of elimination by individual party member vote at large.

He or she through process of elimination then becomes the party candidate, responsible to and accountable to, by ironclad written contract to the party members.

The greatest argument I've received against my proposal is that "it would be so time consuming." I say, so what. Any time consumed getting honest governors and lawmakers compared to the governors and lawmakers in the multilevels of government we have today is gravy time and worth every second spent getting good government.

If we continue with this two party system of government we have now, where the people we must vote for are chosen for us by rich elite party insiders the problems for this nation will get worse, not better. This is factual documented history.

It has been clearly documented that politics, entrenched politicians, career bureaucrats, and government contractors have become no more than entities with legal license to steal and get away with it.

P.J. O'Rourk stated it best in his 1992 book "A Parliment of Whores":

"Any likeminded group, acting in concert, can steal anything they want and get away with it.

Apply this sentence with paraphase insertions of the words president-administration, congress, bureaucracy, and government contractor and it clearly states what we see going on in the good ole U S A today.

Especially, but not exclusively too, government contractors supplying war arms/supplies, today we taxpayers are footing the bills for airplanes, tanks, bombs, etc. etc. ad infinitim. being sold by U S government contractors at prototype costs for production line vehicles and such. And it goes on unabated without the slightest protest from all but a few John Q Citizen's whose voices are no more than whispers lost in the cacaphony of a hurricane.

With the federal government budget alone and a congress that can't even burp for less than a billion dollars anymore, our interstate highways should be paved with gold from coast to coast, national border to national border. And this too goes on unabated without the slightest protest from all but a few John Q Citizen's whose voices are no more than whispers lost in the cacaphony of another hurricane.

Many of our larger more populas states have state budgets larger than the federal budget was thirty years ago.

The "No, no, no regulations" of our union busting congress through the energy producers, insurance companies, credit card companies, pharmacutical manufacturers, all riding high on the grandest gravy train in history have all but destroyed what was once known as the working middle class American Citizens with legalized robbery by cash register.

So if you want to call what I propose "union" I'll go for it because from what I see and experienced is almost total disunity within the social and political fabric of our nation.

I appreciate your comments and will continue this discourse if you wish and expound on how a third party and winning by plurality can set this nation straight and back on its feet with the masses, not an oligarcic plutocracy, in power and control of government and politicians.

TP
Thomas_pearson46@hotmail.com