Not saying it’s THE strategy to end all but I AM saying that this “Get permission and permits to stand in the free speech zone!” way of protesting is antiquated and obviously designed to be ineffective … So is “Standing off with the cops” occupy wall street style … Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t do it this way and he had far less support than we do … And even though he lost his life because of it, he got far more done in a much shorter timespan than the truth movement could ever dream of and he did it without raising so much as a fist ….
Unless you think the equal rights of minorities back in the sixties were far more important and harder to bolster support for than ALL the rights for EVERYONE … ALL over the WORLD? … I think NOT!
So work smarter not harder ….
Protest permits banning you to free speech zones designed to keep you from bothering anyone is for suckers, slaves, and people with no unalienable rights … So start acting like it!
Rule#1: Permits be damned … Block important intersections and vulnerable private businesses … Keep walking along in a pack but take your time … Cross large intersections using several light cycles … By the time (If) police show up you’ll be minding your own business somewhere else ….
Rule#2: Protest during bad/muddy weather whenever possible … If it’s a huge pain in the ass for you to get there and assemble it will be a much bigger pain in the ass for them to get there and assemble in much larger numbers with tons of riot/battle gear in tow … If you can get them stuck in the mud or snow all the better ….
Rule #3: Hit and run protests … Hit in small groups of thirty in multiple strategic locations at once … If the Police/Swat teams start to line up in their full battle armor to corral you together like cattle to the slaughter … Don’t be there anymore … When they leave come back … If they stay go somewhere else and continue so they must follow … Run them in multiple circles long enough and your city will be faced with the decision of going broke running hundreds of personnel all over town on overtime constantly with battle gear in tow or relent ….
Rule #4: If they have the occasion of surrounding you do nothing at all … If they use sound cannons protect yourself, if they use hoses learn to love the water, if they use tear gas build up a tolerance, if they use tazers ware tazer resistant clothing, if they mercilessly beat innocent people doing nothing with sticks or shoot them with their guns and kill them the riot police have already lost ….
Rule #5: Regroup and Return to rule #1 … Repeat forever … If done consecutively without respite with new/replenished groups of thirty, each cycle will be that much easier for you and that much harder for them …
Based on the economy, they can’t afford to repeat forever … Based on the 180% degree turn this Constitutional Republic has taken in our lifetimes and based on world history … You have nothing left to lose ….
jackdanieldouglas
December 30, 2011 at 5:42 pm
If protesters look at their actions as INFORMING THE PUBLIC with the idea of ORGANIZING A MASS MOVEMENT instead of bothering the public with their collective actions hoping to get them to JOIN YOU-THEIR ANTAGONISTS [IE: revictimizing the victims...a very, very, very bad idea that has been brought forward from the failures of the 1960s-1970s], and split up their largfer groups into smaller groups and spread out at MANY busy intersections using the pedestrian light cycles to slowly cross the streets carrying their messages for just a few hours at a time, then the effectiveness of ORGANIZING IN POSITIVE WAYS will be 10,000 times more effective per person that LAST CENTURY’S antiquated tactics. Its 2012 and no longer 1968…and activists should modernize. See: CI…Civil Informationing:modrnizing public activismon teh Thom Hartmann website search engine.