posted on Feb, 12 2009 @ 12:04 PM
As many have noted, marches ON washington don't have the impact that they used to have. In the Sixties and early Seventies, they worked because of
the emergence of broadcast TV coincided with them, and there were several powerfully intertwined threads: the Vietnam War, gender equality and racial
equality. Plus a sympathetic president who actively supported most of it. But that isn't replicable today for a number of reasons: the goals are less
definitive and easily turned into points of conflict economically, the players on the government side are mostly the same people who learned from
their earlier errors, the media is no longer sympathetic to the masses, and the president is, well, I'm not sure exactly where his true loyalties lie
yet.
So rather than a march ON Washington, I propose a march "FROM" Washington, on April 15th. Wait until April 15th to file your taxes if you owe the
state and fed money. Then don't send in a check to the feds, file for an extension instead, then file for another when that runs out. You can legally
file three extensions to pay.
If your state is well run, or in dire straits, whether to pay them is more problematical, good arguments exist on both sides of that debate.
But for the feds, it's no contest: not a dime until they pull their heads out.
[edit on 12-2-2009 by apacheman]
[edit on 12-2-2009 by apacheman]