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wial Donating Member (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 08:02 PM
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129. I'm getting why they are bussed in
because it would be such a teachable moment for them were they to get back to their cars and find them in need of costly repairs not covered by their corporate insurance plans, such as slashed tires and key scratches, with little stickers explaining to them how corporate insurance won't help them and how this applies to the health insurance debate. I suppose being bussed wouldn't help much were the bus to have a staging area which was not heavily guarded. Hopefully the PR goons running these shows will get smart and invest in the security needed to protect their cars and the cars of their willing shills. If not, they might lose some supporters as they finally get object lessons clear enough to understand, and/or lose the financial ability to attend rallies. It's a real hole in their plan because such actions would be non-violent and not off limits to those trying to save our country from them.

I've seen some interesting tactics with butyric acid on that Whale Wars show too. It's non-harmful but extremely smelly. It would be bad if someone were to tag one of those corporate buses with butyric acid or to release some among the protesters. For one thing, the media might even make the association, and I doubt the PR folks running these protests at the behest of their corporate masters would like being associated with Japanese whalers. I hope they've got some countermeasures in place to protect themselves, because a lot of people have good cause to raise their games at this point, and there's plenty folks could do out of direct action playbooks that would not raise the violence level yet would make life extremely miserable for the goons and their stooges.

I do hope they're ready.

More effective though and what I'd actually recommend because it worked for us once vis a vis the KKK, is to threaten to dress as clowns (the Klue Klutz Klowns if I recall correctly) and dance around them giving them flowers. On that occasion the KKK hastily canceled their visit, after our plan leaked to the media.

Hey, maybe just dress as KKK and join them, shouting Borat-style over-the-top slogans until even they are embarrassed to silence. (Although as supporters of Glen Beck, maybe that would just lather them up). And bring butyric acid, but lose grip of the bottle accidentally and theatrically spill it everywhere while trying to stop the leak.

There has to be a way.
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