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May 30, 2008 at 11:42:48

Exit Strategy: Should America Go On Strike?

by chris rice

www.opednews.com

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Individually we find that we are powerless against corporate media or Big Oil or Washington. Our choices are limited. Our effectiveness diminished. This is not by accident. Unions, social gatherings, clubs that all flourished before the 1960s have all been destroyed by those who find you & me a threat.

Today people will tell you that protest are ineffective. And they are. But real change does not come from the ballot box as the politicians & media want you to believe. Great social change like the eight hour work day, child labor laws, a woman's right to vote, civil rights, etc., etc. all came about through blood & sweat & great effort. Just showing up every four years to pull the lever on election night only changes the faces of those who will lie to you.

For the next four years.

Today we find ourselves in a very unique situation because rank & file republicans, democrats, greens, independets & libertarians ALL agree that Bush & Co. MUST GO NOW. And we must end this war NOW.

Congress & the president have failed to come up with an exit stategy for our troops. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Constant redeployments, lack of equipment or medical leave, destroying families & creating thousands of widows & orphans on both sides, etc. MUST STOP NOW.

Here is our EXIT STRATEGY until every troop comes home. And we have a hero's welcome home parade:

GENERAL STRIKE 9/11/08

"Sooner or later all freedom loving Americans will realize that the only way to stop those who would bleed our nation dry, dismantle our constitution, and dissolve our national sovereignty is to say I will not work for you, buy from you, fight for you, or die for you, until the criminals are gone from the halls of our government." Shut 'Em Down!

Economic strike now. General Strike starts 9/11/08.

When Bush says to shop, WE MUST STOP!

Congress has borrowed trillions of dollars on top of our outrageous debt to hand out tax rebates to folks that don't even pay taxes. Why? To save the New World Order. This is our time to STRIKE BACK!

I've been told that people won't take time off during an economic downturn BUT that is when you strike. When the BEAST is weak. Now is the time, the only time that a few days of empty Wal Marts & theatres will send the economy reeling & give this strike the bite that it needs to succeed.

Bring them to their knees. STRIKE today, strike everyday. Buy nothing you don't absolutely need.

The Founding Fathers protested the Stamp Tax, poured tea into the harbor, etc.

CONSUMER FAST until Impeachment. Tell your reps in Congress you will not spend one more dime on non-essentials- Cut gas and energy consumption, buy local, figure out how to reduce your FEDERAL INCOME TAXES via 40lk's and Roths...DIVEST out of stocks!! When Bush says shop, we have to stop !!

Do not vote for its practitioners.

Do not believe the supporters of its practitioners.

As much as it is possible to do so and still survive, do not buy its goods and do not contribute your own efforts to its success. Do not consume its totally decayed media...not news, not entertainment.

In short...leave it while remaining inside of it.

This is the ONLY vote that counts.

Reduce its sway over you, and simultaneously reduce your complicity in it.

If we could do so to the tune of a grand total of only 10% or 15% across the entire population, I believe that this system would collapse. Maybe even less would do it. There is already a thriving underculture...minorities (especially Hispanic minorities, which cannot be so easily co-opted as others because of language differences) a rapidly growing group of totally disaffected young people and an equally rapidly growing group of REALLY angry working class people. If all of us... minorities, the young, anybody else with some sense...were to pull even 30% or 40% of our efforts out of this system, we could cause a sea change that woiuld cripple our current rulers.

We cannot vote them out. Hell bluebird, there is really only one party in our two party system, and the votes THEMSELVES are suspect. But we CAN starve them out.

In the end, it is still all about numbers.

Let us reduce theirs until they fall.

I see no other way.

I have been saying this in various ways on the web for going on two years now. Clearly the OTHER tactics are going nowhere. We make little baby steps in places like Connecticut while the Blood For Oil war machine simply rages on in the Middle East.

Where is the beef? The meat? The RESULTS?

The beef is in the WITHOLDING of nourishment.

Starve 'em out.

MEDIA STRIKE!!!

GAS STRIKE!!!

MCDONALD'S STRIKE!!!

VOTE STRIKE!!!

WALLET STRIKE!!!

GENERAL STRIKE!!!

Etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

Or...continue impotently complaining.

It's getting to be crux time. The evidence is right on your TV set. Another group of embedded reporters doing amazingly slanted reporting on another set of US-backed war crimes.

Got a better idea?

I don't.

In order to get involved, here are the five best steps to take now: 1) Sign up with your email address HERE in order to get updates,

e-alerts@votestrike.com

2) Mark the day on your calendar and plan to be at a protest in your community,

3) Send this URL to all your friends, post it to forums, put it on your personal pages, http://www.votestrike.com

4) Be a volunteer activist, ask us how.

5) Take the lead and help organize a protest on 9/11.

Government is the Entertainment Division of the Military-Industrial Complex.-Frank Zappa

I created a website www.votestrike.com for you, the voters, because, whichever party you belong to they have failed you. The website has the ambitious goal of ending the two party system & the third party myth. Modeled after the fall of the Berlin wall, the Polish overthrow of the communist government, and the Phillipine removal of Marcos. All of this was accomplished without firing a shot. About the author: I'm uneducated, my opinion means nothing but I know that I'm a real good dancer.