Comments for Marches, Protests, and Civil Disobedience? at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:06:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/841-marches-protests-and-civil-disobedience.html#comment-1039 America's walk in the park demonstrations are far too polite in influencing leaders who regularly violate the constitution and international law while deliberately deceiving the public. The civil disobedience of the 60s or today's Latin America are absent in this country today. As noted in the article, civil disobedience required that "Companies were boycotted, business disrupted, military service evaded, university campuses shut down. Labor movements achieved success through similar tactics. A picket line alone never achieved much of anything. Unfortunately that’s what the modern labor movement in America has been reduced to" One wonders who organizes the demonstrations here: the people or the government. There is obviously no sense of urgency in the US population, despite this President and Congress mounting the greatest threat to US democracy and freedom since the Republic was founded (even if you ignore the barbaric foreign policy they practice). Unfortunately, the internet has proved fairly toothless as well. We have our armchair football analysts writing for sites like this, reporting and analyzing events to death, but essentially making readers mere spectators of the unfolding disaster, rather than real participants in efforts to halt or reverse it. This has to change if the coming age of tyranny is to be prevented. What is needed is "forceful, careful, and well planned civil disobedience". Organize. Then have a real demonstration. Blue - a guest Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:34:31 +0100