What will you do if W cancels the election?

[MikeG]

[Endangered Specie]

1. Since I applied to become a moderator...

I dont think it would be appropriate to say.

edit: lets just hope it never happens.

[benburch]

5. As a present moderator

it would absolutely be inappropriate to say.

[AntiCoup2K4]

20. I'm not a moderator, but with Agent Mike watching...

...It would be inappropriate to say.

[SheBop]

2. "Talkin' About

a Revolution"


...into the streets!

[Endangered Specie]

4. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[theivoryqueen]

7. yo tambien! Hello there!

[SheBop]

16. el gusto es mio

:hi:

[SheBop]

13. Oh, thanks, it's good to be among friends!

:toast:

[Aunt Anti-bush]

19. Welcome to Du!

I agree. I'd be right out there with you, too!

[SheBop]

23. * looks to the left * ... * looks to the right *

Are all you varmints this friendly?

:grouphug:

[Aunt Anti-bush]

27. Yes.

"This is an impressive crowd, the have nothings and the have-lesses. Some people call you the poor. I call you my fellow democrats."

:silly:

Just kidding around with a famous quote.

[LincolnMcGrath]

40. Welcome New EvilDUer!

Learn the secret hand signals.
Study your handbook.
And most importantly, Don't Wheeeeze the Juice!

[ronabop]

56. Sweet....

More Boppin'!

Welcome to DU. :)

-Bop

[theivoryqueen]

3. hold my own.

I will place my name in every category, including supreme major commander domo of the blackland prairie.

[NWHarkness]

6. The most massive civil disobedience campaign in history

My wife and I discussed this earlier, and we decided we would go to the city clerks office and chain ourselves to the door until they either drag us away or open the polls.

[klook]

18. Yes! Millions in the streets n/t

[ArnoldLayne]

34. I really think you are right

it would get very ugly and I would be one of the ugliest you've ever seen. :mad: :dem:

[Walt Starr]

8. I would do

that which cannot be mentioned.

[MUAD_DIB]

41. Which cannot be mentioned...yes.

[revree]

9. I will send in my absentee ballot the day I get it...

how can you cancel absentee balloting? Terrorists can't blow us up at home, can they Bushie???

[FloridaPat]

17. Remember Florida absentee ballots of 2000 - the ones that weren't

filled out right and were republican were illegally filled in correctly by the repubs. The Democratic ones were thrown out.

[iconoclastic cat]

10. Ya know, if I can use PayPal to buy a freakin' guitar online,

why can't we all just vote via our own voting account? I mean, it's not like I could pay for someone else's crap or not paying at all without getting caught; why can't we just do it from home? And also make it mandatory!

[Justitia]

11. They did it in Michigan during the primaries....eom

[bearfartinthewoods]

61. I logged onto my ebay account one day and

found "I" had bought 17000 bucks worth of stuff overnight. My account was hacked. Online voting....not yet, I'm afraid.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. I've been to DC to march once this year, already..

I can do it again.

[melv]

14. I like the day off work thing

No Election? Then no work!...followed by a trip to the poll to sit there and protest..

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Here's another suggestion:

Stop Buying Crap. (Especially gas!) Don't Buy anything you don't have to. Their precious capitalist economy that keeps Bush's .001 Percenters so happy depends on millions of compliant little consumers. If we can't have a democratic, representative gov't, I say we take our god-damn ball (and our money) and go home.

I mean this in addition to protesting and generally going ape-shit.

[yardwork]

I agree. I'm against violence - mostly because I'm a sissy

Work stoppages. Strikes. Buy nothing. No need to drive to work - won't be going to work. Plant gardens. Take to the hills. Live off the land.

Go stand in front of the White House with millions of other Americans. Don't leave when the porta-potties overflow. Stay there for weeks. They can't shoot all of us.

[Jacobin]

21. Descend with my fellow americans on Washington

and peacefully protest along with MILLIONS of others, encourage a general strike nationwide, and stay in the street until Congress finds its cajones again.

If that didn't work after a few months, I'd skeedaddle to another country because america would be GONE.

[dflprincess]

22. Find out where the demonstration is and call in sick

so I can be there.

[iangb]

24. The Fist thing to do is.........

..stop thinking 'if', and start thinking 'when'.

Then snow your Reps with e-mails, faxes, phone calls and letters demanding that they nip any such plans in the bud.
If you wait until November to take action you'll be too late.......and the US will be officially on the 'rogue state' list.

[Name removed]

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[MikeG]

26. Read Gandhi.

[ex_jew]

29. I appreciate the advice.

There are of course different ways of working for change. Where I grew up, in Lexington, Massachusetts, we were constantly reminded of the old-fashioned response to tyranny. Sometimes that works. Sometimes not. But it's an honorable tradition.

Remember that the British in India has someplace to go. The British in America (our home-grown fascists) have nowhere else to go. Appealing to their sense of fairness and respect for morality is a bet for a sucker.

Once the Fascists see that they can completely ditch the election with only a tiny amount of resistance (which will of course not be discussed in the media) you who are left will face a massive shitstorm. You have my best wishes ! But I don't choose to live in a dictatorship.

[MUAD_DIB]

45. Be careful of how you parse your words, lexingtonite.

Form a Burlingtonite who will back you up.


Cheers!

[Spiffarino]

37. Absolutely.

There's nothing fascists love more than violence directed at them. It gives them all the ammo they need to repress even more. No, the best way to win - at least at this time - is to be firm, resolute, fearless, and peaceful.

[Sugarbleus]

28. Are we afraid he might actually do this? Okay, if it happened

I like all the suggestions in this thread and I add my:
'It would be inappropriate for me to say' bit........ :evilgrin:

[homelandpunk]

30. I would keep my mouth shut of my intentions.

mm-hmm.

[Spiffarino]

31. To do what should be done...

...by citizens who are corralled like cattle miles away from the object of their protests...

...by legitimate voters who are not allowed to cast their votes because of electoral manipulation by the power elite...

...by any protester in NYC at the Republican convention who is pushed far away from the Center of Evil...

RUSH the bastards - KNOCK down the barricades - GET IN THEIR FACE and let them know with a loud shout that WE ARE NOT AFRAID*

addendum: * I advocate doing this in a NONVIOLENT WAY; destruction only leads to more destruction and just gives the bastards more excuses to take away our freedoms.

If we don't have the courage to defend our democracy, we don't deserve to have one.

[HuskerDem]

32. something significant

That's for sure. Can't say what. :mad: Could say I guess, but I'm not going to.

[fortyfeetunder]

33. I don' t think I will have to do much

because there will be enough of a worldwide uproar, especially from Europe, South Africa, and other parts of the world where the US has called themselves overseeing elections.

Or as my little one says, "don't even think of it"

[MikeG]

35. Massive nonviolent demonstrations and general strikes, folks.

They'll get the message.

[tinanator]

39. or do they really have facilities prepared?

Every so often I get wind of certain developments or locations where certain camp construction plans are being carried out. Is that just crazy talk, or is FEMA fully prepared? I could never imagine the scenario where they might round up US citizens. Until now.

[LifeDuringWartime]

36. maybe drive to the state capitol

and demand that my "bush ranger" governor publicly renounce his support for bush and demand that elections be held on time

[mellowinman]

38. Revolution

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That watusi. The twist.

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[Amaya]

42. Won't happen

Have a nice day :)

[MikeG]

46. Why are they talking about it?

[Sirveri]

43. Get ready for the Civil war.

I honestly believe that if W cancels this election the country will split in two and there will be a civil war over it.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

44. I wouldn't recommend discussing post-coup plans here.

[JSJ]

47. I will raise four divisions...

...of citizen-arresters and go wherever he is and arrest his murderous, thievin' ass. The charges? High crimes and misdemeanors, of course. We will then find a duly-authorized judge to hear his arraignment, deny bail, and determine that he should be held in jail until his trial. The elections will then be held after giving his party time to field a new candidate. Cheney wouldn't be a good choice because he'd lose and/or he might find himself under the jail, too. Why not a couple of simple summary executions in the field? Because we like due process, that's why.

[Fatima]

48. I'll sit back and watch the show.

Like George Carlin said the other day on Air America, they got all the guns and bombs and all the levers of power. If something happens and they cancel elections, do you honestly think they will tolerate thousands of furious protesters descending on the streets of every city??? What remains of the National Guard will be called out along with all the cops, and you can bet people will get shot- and shot- and shot- and the ones who don't get shot will get locked up- and there will still be no elections. Protests don't work anymore except to make those of us who protest feel better. Those in power laugh and scoff at us, don't they. Oh yeah, and now the media aids and abets.

Let's just see how the convention plays out. I'm excited that Ron Reagan is going to speak and I look forward to the whole process getting underway. It's been a very depressing year.

[Renew Deal]

49. Here are my thoughts...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1980664

[Ducks In A Row]

50. go to the county courthouse

and make sure they're still counting the ballots, since Oregon is all vote-by-mail and they just need to count the ballots that have been sent in over the last 3 weeks. There are no polling stations to shut down.

[AlFrankenFan]

51. My step-father (a conservative for Kerry) says we're leaving the US

and he's serious too. He says we'll either move to southern France or to Italy. :scared:

But, first and foremost, I will most likely collapse if I hear the unheard and spend a good week in the hospital. I might completely break down and end up in the funny farm too. I ain't kiddin'. I'm a nervous person.

[Swamp Rat]

52. They can't cancel the elections because their lives depend on it, yet

they must cancel the elections because their lives depend on it. The end is coming for Bush&Co and there is nothing they can do about it. Everything they do backfires on them.

The best way to handle Bush&Co if they cancel the election is to have a peaceful, nationwide strike. Taking up arms will not defeat them, but if everyone refused to work the powers behind Bush&Co would dump him in a NY minute... this may already be in the works.

The only way America can be restored to what it was before Bush&Co is to apologize to the world and send the entire cabal to the Hague. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and their underlings MUST be put in prison for life. Nothing short of this will satisfy.

[bluestateguy]

53. Bush will try to keep his fingerprints off of it...

There will be some "bipartisan commission" of half Republican Bushbots and weenie Democrats like John Breaux and Joe Lieberman, who will go along with this silliness.

[neebob]

54. Have a cow!

of course

[scarface2004]

55. don t worry, bush plans to declare martial law..

and then intern all democrats in death camps, just wait!

[roguevalley]

57. buy a pitchfork.

[stickdog]

58. Something.

[Nile]

59. I would go vote the following week when they reopen the polls.

Get a grip, they are not going to cancel the election only postpone it.

[DNA]

60. Yeah

They weren't going to have the Supreme Court pick a candidate against the will of the majority either, yet somehow it happened. As the saying goes, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

[Piperay]

62. I really don't know nt

:shrug: