Attention Activists: It’s Time to Grow Up

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Attention Activists: It’s Time to Grow Up

Written by Jesse Richard, Editor of TvNewsLIES.org

This is a message to all the well meaning people out there who try their best to make this world a better place, but in fact have no impact on the world, whatsoever. It is time to take your activism seriously.

The time has come to stop your ineffective tantrums and get serious. There are two ways to effect change when it comes to government: passive resistance and revolution. Our republic is broken and we no longer have representatives in government. Constantly asking our elected representatives to legislate on our behalf is not only a waste of time, but also totally unnecessary in a government that no longer represent us..

Actually it is a Catch-22. We live in a communication age. We have the Internet, e-mail, cell phones, land phones, faxes, postal mail and megaphones with which to contact anyone, anywhere, at any time of the day or night. Still, we are told to get on buses and trains so we can march in Washington DC to tell a handful of government officials who don’t even know we are there to do what they were elected to do.

The only legitimate purpose of such a trip at this point in time should be to remove those ineffective representatives and leaders and replace them with people who would honor their oaths of office and actually represent the people who put them there!

I keep getting e-mail and phone calls from organizations asking me to attend “vigils” to take back the nation. Let me tell you something...vigils are to activism what masturbation is to sex. It might make you feel good but nobody else benefits. At least call it what it is...a whining defeat celebration. Why not use your time effectively, like getting people together to plan real change rather than real noise....

More....
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/jesse-richards-commentary/19-jesses-thoughts/771-attention-activists-its-time-to-grow-up-

[TooBigaTent]

1. The age of caring enough to jeopardize your comfortable lifestyle is long gone

in Amerika. My god, what if they missed an episode of Idol?

This country roared in on a tide of revolution. It will slink out by slipping below the waves of fascism, I just hope we do not take the rest of the world with us.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Good stuff, but I have a BIG problem with one paragraph of his. . .

(snip)
The Vietnam conflict was ended by those who organized sit-ins and takeovers not vigils. The Johnson presidency was brought down by those who shut down schools and colleges all over the nation, not by those who lit candles in quiet little ceremonies.
(snip)

What he conveniently forgets to tell us is that Richard Nixon stepped in where Johnson left off, and we had at least 4 more years of war.

:evilfrown:

[TooBigaTent]

3. Johnson WAS brought down as he told. LBJ just could not deal with the resistance

from his own party. That left us with Humphrey who was stuck with the Veep-connection who lost to Tricky Dick in '68. Dick then took his time, but would have been able to stay much longer were it not for the less-than-polite protests.

Polite vigils would work IF 10,000,000 people marched. Anything less than such massive participation leaves the effective actions to those more "vigorous."

[FiveGoodMen]

4. "Polite vigils would work IF 10,000,000 people marched"

Worldwide, I think nearly that many people protested pre-invasion and Shrub said, "I don't listen to focus groups."