Sunday, July 23, 2006

How Do You Fight? Do You Have the Fortitude?
I figure that there are two ways to really effectively show your displeasure with the foreign policy of the US.

The first is to vote out all incumbents. Everyone that voted to give Bush any authority to attack Iraq was driven by polling numbers available at the time. They did not think - critically or otherwise - they reacted to the majority of the public's sentiment.

This was, and is, deplorable.

The second could be more risky. I say could be because if enough of the citizenry stood together, the government would be helpless to do anything.

Of course I am referring to withholding 2006's federal income tax payments. Withholding of federal phone tax may be an easier pill for some to swallow.

Hey, it wouldn't be a viable option unless a "How To" was provided.

Give the feds a token amount. It's not as if you haven't paid enough over the past three years for an illegal war regardless of how you feel over the current US/Lebanon/US/Israel/US/Palestine/US/Syria/US/Iran/US/Iraq/US/Afghanistan/US conflagrations.

I'm through subsidizing wars.

Resistance via withholding tax payments has a very long history. Now we need critical mass.

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