Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005
Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.
During "Not One! Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases. Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target... Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter). For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.
The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed. For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
posted by Michael Bryan @ 12/20/2004 04:26:00 PM
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/not1dime.asp
please check out this website before considering participation in this ridiculous protest. - hobbs in indiana
As a functional protest, this one is equally off the mark. Although a boycott can be an active form of protest (even though boycott participants are in effect doing nothing, they're following a course of action that directly affects the object of their protest), boycotts succeed by causing economic harm to their targets, thereby putting them out of business or at least requiring them to change their policies in order to remain in business. But the target of this boycott isn't an entity that has the power to bring about the desired resolution (i.e., the government) — those who will be economically harmed by it are innocent business operators and their employees. These people have no power to set U.S. foreign policy or recall troops from Iraq, but they're the ones who would have to pay the price for this form of protest, incurring all their usual overhead costs (e.g., lighting, heat, refrigeration) to keep their businesses open and paying employees' salaries, all the while taking in little or no income. (And no, it doesn't all even out in the end — restaurants, for example, aren't going to recoup their lost business through boycott participants' eating twice as much the next day.)
Whether the desired goal is laudable or not, a protest that has little chance of succeeding at its purpose but a high likelihood of harming innocent parties does no one any good. As we always say about these kinds of things, results are generally proportional to effort: If the most effort one is willing to put into a cause is to do nothing, then one should expect to accomplish nothing in return.
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remember the gas boycotts? http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.freep.com/news/driving/helms18%5F20040518.htm
Want to protest? Try this! http://www.turnyourbackonbush.org/about.html
Sorry Hobbs in Indiana....I didn't notice your post Don in FL
Not only will I be making purchases, knowing how much the left hates the private ownership of firearms, I am going to buy ammunition -- lots of it -- and maybe even a new gun
Too Funny. You no spenders really hurt the USA. NOT. What a bunch of loosers. Only thing you proved was that you (YOUR Paycheck for next week will be a little less due to your own stupidity.. Nice Job Libs for letting the rest of the country shop in peace without having to look at you sore losers who are living in the land of denial. I think there are pills available now that Ya'll can take for living in a world of make belive. Or you Libs can do what you said your going to do and MOVE TO CANADA like you PROMISED.. Canada needs more losers like you. Oh yeah BUSH REALLY DID WIN.. 4 more yrs. suck it up.
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