The courts have failed. The legislatures have failed.
We have one last chance to seek a peaceful resolution to the flagrant lawlessness of the 2020 election. We need every voter who was disenfranchised due to our governments repeated failures to follow and enforce the law to come out and stand together in Washington DC on January 6th.
How to organize:
- Make your travel plans
- Contact your local groups and ask for help in organizing. The objective is to consolidate membership lists and resources to build head count and travel resources. HELP BUILD THE LIST OF GROUPS AND RESOURCES IN THE COMMENTS
- Contact your state and federal reps and demand their support. They have massive contact lists and resource pools that they tap for elections, fundraising, etc. Further, many of them made all sorts of claims about fighting and not resting. It's time for them to put action behind their words. If they don't go all in to help and commit to showing up personally, we need to start recall petitions.
- Once you have a reasonable sized, local group, start a crowdsourcing effort to raise additional resources. Don't just make a million random pages of this sort. That will just confuse potential contributors and raise doubts about the legitimacy of the fundraising.
- Attending in person is Objective #1. Stay focused on that. Use the tools above to help make going in person possible for as many people as possible. Then get everyone to send letters, emails, make calls, etc. to help put pressure on all of the above.
We need to show everyone in DC that we are not going to stand aside and allow lawlessness to stand. Those on the fence need to see that our numbers are much larger and much more determined than the violent left and they will either gain our support or they will face our wrath.
It is time for the citizens of the United States to stand, take our power back, and hold our representatives accountable.
I have zero problems with more aggressive action.
Some things to consider, however:
It is also timing consideration. At the moment, we have one card left to play before we are left with nothing but more aggressive options. It is important to keep strategy in mind. It's not just about big visibility. If you gain visibility, what is the next that flows from your action?
I suggest that tens of millions of people on the Capital steps on January 5th and 6th has a more logical and productive potential outcome. If nothing else, no one goes to jail yet and everyone is free on January 7th to pursue additional steps. Or, if anyone is arrested, the government is forced to show that it is willing to use force to suppress the First Amendment.
Do you want to force them to take us seriously, or do you just want to show the world that our government is willing to ignore or suppress us? Because we already know that.
If all you want is symbolism, by all means, go be ignored on the Capital steps. They've ignored every previous rally and protest. It's just loud begging.
Force is what they understand.
Don't you know how to write?
We're about to lose our Republic, and you're taking time to complain about my writing style?
I respect your point and don't entirely disagree.
What I am asking you to consider is the next steps if you are successful, the ability those you impact to affect an outcome, and strategic timing.
Consider recent, similar actions: When BLM started blocking roads, did they gain support or lose support from every day people? Did blocking a highway result in any strategic gain? From what I saw, it did nothing to help them and everyone on our side simply started measuring our vehicles for cow catchers.
There may well be a time when shutting down infrastructure is the only option. That time is not January 5th.
Going after airports is suicidal. Which accomplishes nothing, as they scrape your remains off the tarmac. Bad, bad, BAD idea. Yes, BLM and Antifa were violent but they stopped short of anything that would lead them to immediate execution. Such as threatening to, but not actually scaling the White House walls on election night.
Getting people's support was important before the election, but now? The voting part is over. The point is to make CONGRESS AFRAID OF US.
BLM tended to not give any warning, and ordinary people were caught up in it. If we make it clear that we are going to do this in advance, those who don't want to take part or be inconvenienced have time to reschedule.
Notice, I'm not suggesting we do it now. I'm suggesting we start talking about it now, spreading the word now, letting it be known now that WE COULD DO THIS IF YOU DON'T TAKE US SERIOUSLY.
Speaking of BLM, they did make their point: our judges are clearly afraid of upsetting them, and are refusing to take lawsuits seriously and look at the evidence.
Hey, maybe Sydney Powell will get through to SCOTUS, and they'll come through, and none of this will be necessary. I certainly hope so. You think the idea of occupying the airports doesn't scare me? I'm a middle-aged woman who has never been in trouble with the law in my life. I don't even have a speeding ticket. My heart pounds just writing this.
But our enemies have not been afraid. They have intimidated our poll-watchers, they have committed election fraud, they have destroyed ballots and evidence, they have rioted in the streets and burned buildings. The politicians have bankrupted upwards of 10M people.
And we are afraid to get in trouble? Afraid to upset people? Hell, no wonder they aren't afraid of us.
Plan A was win the election. Plan B was the courts. Plan C was the legislatures. Plan D was Article 12. Plan E is the EO.
But if nothing else works, what is Plan F? Here's an idea for Plan F. If all else fails.
Take the airports.
I think we agree on a lot more than we disagree.
No matter what happens and what anyone does, this fight will not be one in a single, sweeping action. This mess has been generations in the making. It will not be unmade quickly.
I also think that it is an error to leave tools unused. Yes, without question, government is broken, top to bottom, and has much more incentive to "move on" from all of this rather than deal with it. Yes, it will all need to be rebuilt and replaced. That said, I think it is wise to use whatever we can for whatever it's worth for as long as it's useful.
If you are tearing down a house, you don't go inside and start knocking out supports while the roof is still overhead. Sure, it would be fast and effective if you did this, but it also means that you are not available to rebuild the house.
We need as many people in the fight as we can get for as long as possible.
I am probably as disillusioned as you with traditional means of redress. Possibly even more so. That said, these means have moved the needle. When in history have numerous legislatures held hearing about an election prior to the Electoral College vote? It's never happened before. Some are even now issuing subpoenas. No, it is not nearly enough. But it is the result of a relative handful of people making their voices heard through traditional means.
Absolutely we must plan now and put all options and resources on the table. Let's not, however, crash the roof in on ourselves.
One other point:
We need people to turn out for any action. A lot of people. Right now, we can't even get 10% of the people who voted to turn out for a local, Saturday afternoon rally where no one goes to jail.
If 1 of every 10 Trump voters turned out in DC on January 5th and 6th, we'd have over 7 million people actively engaged. A gathering of that size has never happened. If Congress refused to listen, you will have over 7 million very pissed off people going to airports and bus stations on January 6th and 7th.
We have to get people active and engaged first.