Agent CSL
02-17-2008, 08:57 PM
I know a lot of people have the idea of doing more than one march on a certain day. The DC one being the center, then maybe one in Miami.. Los Angelos... Seattle... Chicago. How could the media ignore that! Everyone wins! Here's my opinion. No.
What this is proposing is basically a socialist event. What runs the socialism machine, whether it be health care or welfare, is the concept of stealing from Peter to pay Paul. To make everyone included and provide everything for everyone, first you must steal from someone else.
How does this factor in to the Washington DC march? Well, you're basically stealing people from Washington DC. Sure it's a great concept but instead of having 100,000 at DC you'll have a smaller amount at each major city and less at DC. People who would normally have saved up and gone to the DC march will now stick to their own states because it's just more logical. Why pay $500 and go to DC when you could buy a tank of gas for $50 and head to a nearer city?
And would the media really care? I doubt it. You'll get a few local newspapers to report on you if you're lucky, and you'll be on page 1 of the local section. You could get the same result by holding a "Send us to DC for Freedom!" car wash. Seriously. Set up a car wash to raise money for those who can't otherwise go, you might get some press coverage - maybe.
And what about the bragging rights? I want to say I participated in the 2008 Freedom March in DC where 500,000 people showed up! I don't want to say well... I stood on a street corner... with about 500 other people and we waved signs and nobody really noticed us they just thought we were a random protest group that comes here once a year... and yeah.
Life isn't fair and I know these ideas have the best of intentions and the people who bring them up just want this event to succeed so that people who can't otherwise come can participate, but I don't think they see the downsides of the socialism when you split up the march.
Divide and Conquer. Don't let them do that to us.
What this is proposing is basically a socialist event. What runs the socialism machine, whether it be health care or welfare, is the concept of stealing from Peter to pay Paul. To make everyone included and provide everything for everyone, first you must steal from someone else.
How does this factor in to the Washington DC march? Well, you're basically stealing people from Washington DC. Sure it's a great concept but instead of having 100,000 at DC you'll have a smaller amount at each major city and less at DC. People who would normally have saved up and gone to the DC march will now stick to their own states because it's just more logical. Why pay $500 and go to DC when you could buy a tank of gas for $50 and head to a nearer city?
And would the media really care? I doubt it. You'll get a few local newspapers to report on you if you're lucky, and you'll be on page 1 of the local section. You could get the same result by holding a "Send us to DC for Freedom!" car wash. Seriously. Set up a car wash to raise money for those who can't otherwise go, you might get some press coverage - maybe.
And what about the bragging rights? I want to say I participated in the 2008 Freedom March in DC where 500,000 people showed up! I don't want to say well... I stood on a street corner... with about 500 other people and we waved signs and nobody really noticed us they just thought we were a random protest group that comes here once a year... and yeah.
Life isn't fair and I know these ideas have the best of intentions and the people who bring them up just want this event to succeed so that people who can't otherwise come can participate, but I don't think they see the downsides of the socialism when you split up the march.
Divide and Conquer. Don't let them do that to us.