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List, I apologize for potentially wasting your time on an idea only a few of you would ever consider, so skip it if you have better things to do. But Ivan periodically brings up this monumentally stupid idea & I just enjoy refuting it. If there is anyone else out there who thinks this is a good idea please let us know. Delda, Jerry & Ivan I don't think most PWP are going to be interested. If you are talking about the 50 or so active members of this List going down to DC for the purpose of breaking the law by entering a Federal government building and 'sitting down" (perhaps with carbines borrowed from our retired friends over at the black panthers?) then maybe you'd put together 15-20 who would like to go to DC & get arrested. Although they would be unlikely to arrest us as we would hardly be a threat to law and order, they would most likely pick us - you up by your ears & deposit you outside on the street with the rest of the kooks down there. I was going to add they would most likely be laughing at the spectacle all the time, but with the murder last week of the 2 Capital cops I don't think they would be laughing. Consider the typical PWP *age 57 -- missed the Vietnam era from a personal involvement standpoint. Has no memory of how much fun civil disobedience (CD) is. *due to age, is more conservative than the general public & the List members *believes in the rule of law still! *has some $ problems *is sick, tired, and has trouble traveling. This was my reference to demographics I just think you are being a wee bit naive if you think breaking the law in this day & age is going to be met with a positive public or congressional response. Rudy Guiliani is The Mayor - John Lindsay is gone. -----Original Message----- From: J Finch <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 8:17 PM Subject: Demos >"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.