Dept. of Revolution for Dummies (Wonkette)

[struggle4progress]

What Next For the Bush/Cheney Administration? Maybe Guillotines!

hey’re immune to all laws, they can throw you in the gulag for any reason at all, and they can lock up all your money and property if you’re “impeding” whatever crazed satanic bullshit they’re doing now or in the future. So what can Congress or the Military or you, the hapless citizen, actually do to stop them? ~snip~

One option is a “general strike,” which is useful in that Americans are pretty lazy and if everyone else is skipping work, why not? But such a thing only really works if crucial cogs in the wheel stop moving, like air traffic controllers and school teachers (parents would be forced to stay home) and UPS drivers and harbor masters at the Port of Los Angeles where hundreds of giant Chinese freighters are lined up for unloadiing around the clock.

Other scholars say the best thing to do is go on a “local rampage.” There are 100 senators and 432 representatives at the moment (three seats are vacant in the House), and each of these people have local offices as well as local residences. Experts say the congress critters will seriously start freaking out if hundreds of unhinged people collect around these local offices and barricade the local staffers inside. In the past, effigy burnings and mob attacks have proved particularly fruitful in garnering the attention of politicians in Washington.

Perhaps the most interesting tactic is looting and burning the local residences of the politicians in Washington, which was also common in the 19th Century. Nothing says “the constituents are a bit upset” like watching CNN coverage of your house on fire. ~snip~

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-revolution-for-dummies/what-next-for-the-bushcheney-administration-maybe-guillotines-280860.php

It's worth the read

[aquart]

1. Helpful little darling.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Thanks.

I wish the mainstream media could be bothered to pay attention to this.

[alfredo]

7. Send the article to everyone you know. I have shortened the URL

so it will not be a hassle in e-mails.

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[Warren DeMontague]

8. Right on. nt

[alfredo]

11. The easier it is, the better. We have to become the media.

[tom_paine]

3. K & R for the crazy times we live in...

[Richard Steele]

4. K&R

[Wiley50]

5. It warms my heart to read essays such as this

My favorite comment of the bunch:

" BY WIDTAP AT 03:47 PM

Your Constitutional experts are a bunch of pussies, Wonkette.

A measly 19th century show trial under the the Article 8 "To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;" clause? Chief Justice Roberts will kill that in Haliburton heartbeat, Impeachment or no.

I say we go for the bit in Article 1,Section 8 about "To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union". In other words Congress has the power to call up its own militia and go enforce the laws themselves. Congress doesn't have to assert jack to call out the militia.

Screw something that Roberts will just sneer at - go for the guns.

Let's put Article 8 and the 2nd Amendment to some decent use. "

[piedmont]

13. Now there's a sure-fire way to start a civil war.

A militia of citizens loyal to Congress against a militia loyal to the Executive branch, and the regular military probably divided up between them. That's a metric shit-ton of firepower, and God help us all if it ever happens.

Oh yeah, and then there's the nukes if anybody wants to really go bat-shit.

[wtmusic]

6. “There’s a riot going on outside Senator Numbnuts’ big-ass house

at 123 White People Drive in Fancy Hills. Send your live team!”

:loveya: Love Wonkette. :loveya:

[IChing]

9. A worthy read

I know it was tongue in cheek
or was it really? k/n

[Kurovski]

10. K&R (nt)

[AntiFascist]

12. Even more lazy than a general strike...

you wouldn't have to even get out of your car: just determine a day and time (near rush hour) to slow down or stop traffic on the freeway. Best if you have a group of friends who can drive around you. If this could be done nationwide, even for just a couple of minutes, it could make an incredible statement.

[CGowen]

14. Escort services around DC should do a "general strike" n/t

[althecat]

15. Now that is great... finally some real lateral thinking....