UPDATE: I went to lunch after having made this post on a whim. I decided it was a mistake. Not only was it pretty immature as written but it was a little irresponsible. But make the jump and hear me out...
However, after reading the comments, I feel it should not be deleted (unless someone of authority at Kos says I should).
My intention was NEVER to kick it off. I don't want anyone to go to the White House and get hurt AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY.
Someone made the point that Ghandi and his folk had no recourse in their government. I submit that the left are dangerously close to that point in our own government. The fact that we are in Iraq now is proof of that in my opinion.
My post was NEVER a call to harm anyone at the White House. Far from it. I said "Go in and take the sons-a-bitches out of our White House." NOT "take them out." I want that to be clear. The point about it being a flashMOB was only to use that as a device, not to insinuate that a mob should decend on the White House AND WREAK HAVOC. Anyone who knows anything about flashmobs know they show up and DO SOMETHING SPECIFIC and then leave.
The scariest and most annoying points of the comments were that I was some kind of troll and that this should be deleted because it could make everyone look bad. I seem to get that a lot. If I don't like Kerry, I'm a troll. If I don't bow to everyone with a D after their name, I'm a troll. If I think it might be getting to the point where we have to take ACTUAL action, I'm a troll.
Well, if absolute fealty with an eye towards how things might "look" is what is required, then I might be a troll because that is not how I think. And it is my opinion that that exact kind of thinking is what got progressives/liberals in the shitcan that we are in now.
So, unless someone of authority here asks me to delete this post, it ain't happening. Discussions shouldn't be censored because you're afraid. No matter what it is you're afraid of.
SORRY ABOUT THE FORMATTING, BUT MY HTML IS FOR CRAP.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Someone should organize that. Have 50,000 people show up at the White House and just start marching toward it and don't stop no matter what.
If we get hit in the head or gassed or maced, just keep marching. Go in and take the sons-a-bitches out of our White House. They stole it, it is ours and we should take it back.
Everyone who marches in there should do a Ghandi and keep walking. Don't fight back. Don't talk, just walk. Don't stop no matter what. If you get knocked down, just get up and keep silently walking towards the White House and in the front doors.
It seems that with all the people that are angry in this country that people would take it beyond simple protesting. I don't understand why it hasn't been done yet.
It seems to me we are way past the point where angry emails and checks to candidates and posting like mad are going to have any affect. Those inside the beltway are never going to acknowledge us unless we are prepared to literally get in their faces.
Maybe its crazy. Maybe folks could get hurt. But how much bullshit will we swallow? When is enough enough?