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"Daley heard about it -- actually I think he heard about it after they rented the buses but before they got on them -- and did a very fast about- face." Unlike his Papa who spent the better part of his administration beating the c**p out of protesters. (yes, I served. Yes, I came home and protested.) It is a viable tactic. A PWP demonstration would have to be timed to perfection to get national news coverage. Staging something in front of the White House is a waste of time. Hundreds of people do that everyday, to no effect. It would have to be inside one of the government buildings. Would you be willing to be arrested? Can you picture the news coverage of 500 PWP's being carried off to jail? The test, however, should be if this would have a positive or negative impact on the funding issue, and the true questions are "Have we heard enough of the promises to do something drastic?" "Are we tired enough of being civil, of walking the halls of Congress and saying, 'Please, help'?" Anyone have an answer? On falling: My CO would yell at me, as he tried to teach me how to rappel off very tall structures, that no one ever got hurt falling. It was the sudden stop at the end that became dangerous.