Reply #124: What's With the Either/Or Thinking? Why Would You Give Up a Powerful Protest Tool?

[PopSixSquish]

I'm sure that Terry Goddard would be a good governor, but would that be enough? He can't simply "wave a magic wand" (to borrow a phrase) and suddenly make this bill be overturned. You'd need to run the table by getting him, a new AG, and a new legislature elected, something that takes time.

In the meantime, why not boycott or strike? Hold daily protests outside the legislature? Get the Feds to sue AZ over civil rights violations? Support the Mayor of Phoenix LOUDLY who is going to sue to get this overturned? Get MLB to move the 2011 All-Star Game? Protest the AZ sports teams when they come to play in other cities? Hell, why not an AZ versiodn of the "Freedom Riders"?

If the police departments in AZ oppose this law, then they need to say so LOUDLY. Get them to refuse to enforce it. Get the churches to lead the santuary movement.

And yes, encourage people to donate to AZ Democratic politicians running for local, state and federal office.

Every action has and equal an opposite reaction, the point here is to make the reaction an order of magnitude larger and use every tool you can...