Lauren Canario arrested and possibly Kat also

[Kat Kanning]

Comments on this press release?  Should I add anything?


After seeing my friend Dave Ridley put behind bars yesterday for the "crime" of Distributing Handbills, I decided that I must stand up to this oppressive government, even if only a small way.  So tomorrow I will sit in the Keene IRS office with a sign saying, "Taxes pay for torture" until I'm hauled away. 

I first realized the federal government was completely evil when I watched as church people in Waco were burned alive by federal agents.  Since then, this government has engaged in a war of aggression against Iraq, killing perhaps 700,000 Iraqi civilians.  It has become the open policy of the US to torture prisoners and hold them without charges or trial.  Somehow, good people in this country have been able to justify in their minds that this is necessary for our protection.  I want to make a stand so people will rethink these kinds of justifications.  How can our freedoms come from torturing others, who have not even been shown to have committed any crimes?  I don't want this kind of freedom.  I want the kind of freedom where initiation of force against others is the exception, rather than public policy.

In times such as these, it is incumbent upon each individual to look at his own actions and decide, "Am I aiding this atrocity or resisting it?  Am I giving them money?  Am I working for them?"  I don't want to have to explain to my grandchildren why I didn't stand up against the murder and torture - and at least attempt to put a stop to it, no matter if the attempt seems like "tilting at windmills."

What:  Civil disobedience against Federal atrocities
Where:  Keene IRS Office
When:  Thursday July 19th, 10:00am
Contacts:  Kat Kanning 357-2049, Lauren Canario 721-1490

[TackleTheWorld]

Add contact: Lauren Canario 721-1490

[Kat Kanning]

OK, thanks Lauren!

[supperman15]

give them hell girls

[Ogre]

A comment from "an outsider" (I'm not in the Shire yet, but I AM on my way, come on housing market).

I think the idea is great.  I very much applaud your effort.  Coming from a marketing point of view (and nothing else), I wonder if the message could be slightly different.  The media and many people, when they see the word "torture," are going to associate you with the far left, Cindy-Sheehan type radicals and they'll dismiss you (and ignore you).  In order to attract the most attention, I'd humbly suggest that you'd be less marginalized with a message like "Taxes are Evil"  or "Taxes are Wrong" or even (to connect with Dada), "IRS Employees work for Evil."

Just a suggestion.

[Russell Kanning]

I guess that Judge Muirfield judged our reaction to Dave Ridley's jailing wrongly.

[Kat Kanning]

Thanks for the suggestion, Ogre.  I'll think it over.

[Russell Kanning]

maybe Kat is part of the extreme left .... if they are the ones that are not OK with torture

[Ogre]

I understand that one, Russell -- that's why I tried to word my response the way I did.  I'm not saying that *I* disapprove of the sign, I'm just thinking it will garner less attention worded that way.  Of course, I could be completely wrong about it -- marketing, the media, and people are a very weird science. 

[Russell Kanning]

also lefties could view the message of "taxes are evil" ... and think that you are just an evil rightwing capitalist pig.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Frigg'in Commie Kat and that 'refuses to pay his fair share' Ogre!

[Ogre]

Okay, so a message for everyone...Torture offends the right, "taxes are evil" offends the left...

Maybe the sign could just say:

TAXES

I'm not sure how effective that one would be. 

[Russell Kanning]

I don't feel you can make your message politically correct. We are talking about dealing with reality. The Feds torture detainees.

[Ogre]

I understand what you're saying.  I really wasn't going for politically correct (because any anti-tax anything, by it's very nature cannot BE PC).  I was just trying to think of a way that the most people would see the message, or the most media might pick it up and tell the sheeple.

[Lloyd Danforth]

'Honk If You Hate Taxes'

Works on both the subjective  and PC levels