US occupation of Iraq: Time for some more Civil Disobedience

[Kat Kanning]

I'll be telling the media that Russell is doing this as an official representative of the FSP.  Can you get the FSP logo added to the flyer, Caleb?

[cathleeninnh]

Why would you do that, Kat?  ???

Cathleen

[KBCraig]

I think she's practicing her curmudgeon lessons.

[Russell Kanning]

 Tossing Greenbacks Into the Tar Pit

by Gary North

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north469.html


Recently, I read a first-hand account by a reporter who has been in and out of Iraq since the late 1970s, Patrick Cockburn (COEburn). He says that what he has seen in recent weeks is incomparable. On July 24, he wrote:

Some 3,149 people were killed in June alone, or more than 100 a day, and the figure is likely to rise higher this month because of tit-for-tat massacres by Sunni and Shia Muslims. Some 120 Shias were killed in two attacks earlier in the week and gunmen yesterday kidnapped 20 employees of a government agency in Baghdad looking after Sunni mosques and shrines.

The death toll has risen every month this year and totalled 5,818 in May and June. This far exceeds the number given by the Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count, a web site that compiles casualty figures based on published accounts, which said that 840 civilians died in June. Overall 14,000 civilians were killed in the first half of the year says the UN.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I think she's practicing her curmudgeon lessons.

Hope so!

[Russell Kanning]

I was checking out the IRS offices above the post office.
There are 3 locked doors on the landing with all the forms. There is another locked door that leads to a hall full of more doors.

I was thinking of other ways to push them that would be more fun than turning over the tables.
I thought that burning more forms would be fun (this time inside).... but it is too hot. So then I started thinking of water again.

If they don't quit by next week .... maybe we should go in there with bombs and guns.
How about water balloons and squirt guns? We could throw water balloons at the second story windows. This would work even if all the doors were locked.
We could also take more territory with a squirt gun attack up the stairways and into the hall. :pitchfork:

[Caleb]

I'll be telling the media that Russell is doing this as an official representative of the FSP.  Can you get the FSP logo added to the flyer, Caleb?

Is this a joke?  Or are you serious?  ???

[RichW]

Just saw this issue over at the FSP website...don't care for the aggressive plan to overturn tables.  Why not consider a filibuster?  Each day the office is open, take a handheld boombox with microphone in to the office and deliver a long lecture on why the should quit their jobs.  They may agree with you and quit...or you might just drive 'em crazy, forcing them to quit.

Eh, just an idea.

[Kat Kanning]

I like the idea of challenging military recruiters to water balloon fights.

[Kat Kanning]

Is this a joke? 

I wasn't joking.

[Dave Ridley]

I like the water balloons and squirt guns best, of all the ideas i've heard so far.  the bullhorn idea sounds fun enough.    radio shack in keene has some, or used to at least.

I have not told any media or anything that he would be turning over tables, in fact I dont' gather that he has yet promised to do so. 

So there seems room for modification of the plan without anyone backing out on their word


I mean if russell got arrested for refusing to stop squirting the irs office with a water gun or something, that would be very easy to have fun with and generate support.   Support will not be forthcoming for the table overturn, if the reaction  i am seeing so far is any indication. I realize russell doesn't care much about public opinion, but we are all in agreement that we want to get bang for the buck and an arrest over water guns will generate more bang for the buck than the overturn, I suspe

[Russell Kanning]

I also want to do the least amount of civil disobedience to get them to react. They might flip out if we hang out in their office too long.

I am not much of a filibuster kind of guy, but that isn't too bad of an idea.

[Tom Sawyer]

Just saw this issue over at the FSP website...don't care for the aggressive plan to overturn tables.  Why not consider a filibuster?  Each day the office is open, take a handheld boombox with microphone in to the office and deliver a long lecture on why the should quit their jobs.  They may agree with you and quit...or you might just drive 'em crazy, forcing them to quit.

Eh, just an idea.

Will you come and man the bull horn to start things rolling.

Welcome to the underground.

[Dreepa]

If they don't quit by next week ....

You aren't even going to let them give 2 weeks notice?

How about time to find another job?

[Russell Kanning]

I never got to talk with the irs workers, but I did get to ask some homeland security guys to quit.