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Originally posted by radagast
I just don't see how a "turn your back on bush" event is like waco, where the gov't breaks out the flamethrowers and tanks......sorry......
Writer Urging Inauguration Day Boycott
by Adrienne Schwisow
DETROIT - David Livingstone says the idea behind the economic boycott he's organizing is simple: If people don't show up at work or buy things, companies lose money. As he sees it, that's money the Bush administration can't tax, and can't use to run the war in Iraq, protect polluters or chip away at the Constitution.
David Livingstone, 41, of Hazel Park,Michigan shows the home page to his Web site on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 8, 2005, in Detroit. Livingstone is trying to spread the word about an economic boycott he'll participate in during the presidential inauguration on Thursday, Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)
So the Detroit Democrat and a handful of other anti-Bush groups across the country are urging others of like mind to withhold their cash and labor on Inauguration Day — from all businesses. They don't think they'll inflict a huge economic pain, but they do want to make a point.
"I view the inauguration of Bush as a black Thursday for this country," Livingstone says. "We've tried marching in the streets to stop the war, we tried writing letters, we tried initiatives on the Web, but Bush doesn't listen. It seems to us the only thing Bush and the Republicans will listen to is money."
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Originally posted by Simulacra
This event has the ingredients to turn into a waco-like event. Tension will obviously be high and hundreds, maybe thousands of people will be gathered near the capital. Let's face it, we are 11 days into 2005 and it already has broken many precedents. Maybe this will be another.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
And I highly doubt the protesters will get out of hand. I mean, what are they going to do?
Originally posted by Simulacra
Just wanted to throw out this mini-update:
Writer Urging Inauguration Day Boycott
by Adrienne Schwisow
DETROIT - David Livingstone says the idea behind the economic boycott he's organizing is simple: If people don't show up at work or buy things, companies lose money. As he sees it, that's money the Bush administration can't tax, and can't use to run the war in Iraq, protect polluters or chip away at the Constitution.
Originally posted by Simulacra
I havent been back in America since Bush was re-elected so I havent experienced the tension first hand. However, in a very large group of mostly pacifist protestors the 'Lone nut theory' still applies.