Evil Genius Brainwave!- DU Cheerleaders for Protests

[number six]

We get a group of very attractive women to form a cheerleader group (say, in a large city, like NYC, or Washington) that can protest outside Republican events. They can make up little chants about Bush's policies (hey George! Where's Saddam) and do the full cheerleading business. It'll be guaranteed huge media coverage and cause the media trauma (we don't want to cover left-wing protesters, but hey, they're really hot cheerleaders). Let's take our culture's obsession with spectacle and titilation and throw it back in their faces. It's situationism at it's best (if i say so myself).
What do you reckon?

[Capn Sunshine]

1. I've seen this done by Canadians

A comic troupe whose name escapes me.
It would make GREAT street theater. I'd ask the ladies at Code Pink for starters.

Let's think BIG. NYC Convention anyone?

[mikehiggins]

8. Stay Home

Holding demonstrations in NYC during the GOP convention is as stupid and self destructive an idea as anyone could ever come up with.

Stay home.

If you want to protest the GOP convention, do something at home. Hold
memorial services for the men and women who have died in Bush's War. Visit a VA hospital, organize a blood drive, do voter registration, hold a concert or ten, but under no circumstances be stupid enough to put yourself in harm's way and in the video cameras of the media and Rove. You will be doing the GOP's work for them. How dumb is that?

There will be little more than two months between the GOP convention and the election, and the images from that event will be all over the press, all over the world, and in every US television set that can pull in a signal.

What do you think the message will be?

Is it possible that anyone could be blind enough to ignore what has gone on with the media in this country over the last decade? Does anyone really think any newsreader is going to go out in the street to learn the truth and take a chance on getting hit? Does anyone really think any media type is going to try and raise a ruckus on the Convention floor? What is wrong with you people? Is it conviction or ego?

And what kind of moron looks forward to something like what happened in Chicago? Some protest leaders are bragging that people are going to die; that there'll be blood in the street. If someone looks forward to that, just how can they claim to be any different from the Bush League?

Does anyone think the world doesn't know there are lots of people who don't like King George? Watch BBC news if you have any doubts. So what are exactly you going to prove by confronting the NYPD and the Secret Service except your ability to get hit?

Spokespeople on the left are doing what the old style generals always do, fighting the last war.

2004 is not the 60's and 70's. This administration already knows a huge number of americans are in opposition to them and their putsch. They don't care. All that will happen that week in September will be spun as proof that only terrorists and protestors are against Bush.

Pictures of protestors "desecrating" the 911 site will play round the clock across the nation, even if the Bush League has to use its 200 million to pay for the airtime. Mass arrests will follow and lots of those arrested will be charged with terrorism under the Patriot Act. Others around the US will be dealt with the same way and no one can count on some brave newsperson standing up for the victims.

You must know this is likely.

Avoid NYC like the plague next September. If there was someone or some group out there with the resources to do it, concerts could be set up to take place that whole period, stealing some of the attention from the GOP convention and focusing it on what would be much better for all concerned.

My vision is of empty streets, lined with GOP agitators without crowds of dupes surrounding them, facing rows of bored NYPD cops standing around drinking coffee and eating donuts.

On overtime.

Stay home and do something constructive where it will make a difference, where the people who are going to vote are.

[number six]

9. I didn't have the convention in mind when I came up with this

but none of us is looking for a detroit '68, although the spirit of 1968 (especially the Parisian version) would be welcome today. What I have in mind are staged media events to suck up some of the media coverage at republican and allied events, not riots. I feel that this would at least take some airtime away from the airheads. That's where I'm coming from. We use the weapons of today to fight today's battle.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Worth a trial run at least.

Any weapon, any time. Whatever it takes.

[thebigidea]

11. muahhaha. Yes, I bet you'd like 'em to

[Metatron]

2. Great idea!

Couldn't we also have cute guy cheerleaders, too?

I think the evil Trent Lott was a cheerleader in college . . .

[number six]

3. Of course, I'm all for equal opportunities.

Just whichever gets the most coverage.

[wtmusic]

4. Why not transgender cheerleaders

we'll kill two birds with one stone!

[number six]

5. Maybe, although that could go two ways.

The media dismisses them as freaks and marginalizes them, or gives a lot of coverage. I think one gender is enough to be going along with!

[Capn Sunshine]

6. Don't forget W was too

I belive the team he's cheering for is the flaming assholes

[number six]

7. Then it's only fitting that cheerleaders are their downfall!