March on DC for #BudgetRawDeal

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Craig Thompson

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Show of Support in DC for #BudgetRawDeal

I'm considering arranging visible support (in Washington DC) for people who want to travel there, and support those in opposition to this bill. The usual presence ... signs, banners, liberty clothes, etc. Perhaps pulling a permit for a few days from the application date (they want 48 hrs in advance, or 10 days to exceed population limits in front of the white house and Lafayette Park. Then seeing how many people we can get out there. Now that the shutdown is over, we might be able to go onto the Mall without permits ... There's a LOT of details that need to be worked out, but it would be truly grass-roots. **Just like we started out in 2008 ...

We could get thousands on that place (but would have to do it legally, and with full cooperation of the parks police, DC Metro, and the secret service).

Any thoughts?

p.s. - I'm finished using the third person to refer to myself. It was a promise based on a misinterpretation of someone else's advice. I'll speak more plainly from now on, lol.
 
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The website is now up at www.budgetrawdeal.org

There's a donate link, and this effort will have FULL transparency (with refunds for leftover money). I will not be using *any of the funds for my own personal expenses (whether it be travel, or website setup costs, etc.). If we need a TON of money for something or other, I will fundraise first with some wealthy friends of mine. But all donations on that website will absolutely go towards getting *other people (that aren't wealthy) to D.C. that want to go.
 
The facebook page is up now too ... https://www.facebook.com/budgetrawdeal.

Please help promote this - I'm paying $10/day for ads on Facebook (not sure if it will reach many), but the best advertisement (for anything really) is word of mouth. Invite all your facebook friends if you're on facebook, and call/email local media outlets if you have the time!

Thanks everyone!!
 
Craig Thompson said:
The facebook page is up now too ... https://www.facebook.com/budgetrawdeal.

Please help promote this - I'm paying $10/day for ads on Facebook (not sure if it will reach many), but the best advertisement (for anything really) is word of mouth. Invite all your facebook friends if you're on facebook, and call/email local media outlets if you have the time!

Thanks everyone!!
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I'm the first "Like"?
 
And, for those that have twitter accounts:

 
Here's an email that can be sent to local talk show hosts that I just sent to our local conservative-leaning talk show host on live right now:

Email title: March on DC for fiscal responsibility in government

Content:
Hi ____,
We’re putting together a grassroots campaign to take people to Washington DC, in order to show support for any and all Senators who are opposed to the proposed budget deal (which is actually a RAW deal for the American people).

We have a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/budgetrawdeal
a twitter page https://twitter.com/BudgetRawDeal
and an official webpage that takes donations http://www.budgetrawdeal.org/

If you’re concerned with the rising federal debt and deficit, and would like to help bring people to DC, then we would appreciate you mentioning this on your show tonight!

In liberty,
The organizers behind #BudgetRawDeal
 
I've tweeted all Senators now, feel free to go to our twitter account at www.twitter.com/budgetrawdeal and re-tweet as many senators as you want. Please only send one tweet per Senator (for each person that is tweeting), so that it can be a true gauge of how many people are asking them.

Thanks!!
 
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If that's a threat Smitty, then you're the #1 suspect now if anything happens to me. Don't even dream that what happened in that video would happen now. All I've been talking about since I was in D.C. last time is civil *OBEDIENCE. The cops in my town love me. I have credibility with the secret service and the capital police. And I'll do whatever they tell me to. I've said in BudgetRawDeal's press release that any action taken on behalf of this group will be peaceful and *legal. So take that as you want to, but it's the truth.

The reason why the liberty movement hasn't succeeded yet, (and the reason why our founders didn't succeed for very long), was that there was too much civil *disobedience as an undercurrent. Romans 13 says to obey the government, and so I am. I'm working within the system to help change the system.

So don't ever threaten me again, whoever you are Smitty.
 
Craig Thompson said:
If that's a threat Smitty, then you're the #1 suspect now if anything happens to me. Don't even dream that what happened in that video would happen now. All I've been talking about since I was in D.C. last time is civil *OBEDIENCE. The cops in my town love me. I have credibility with the secret service and the capital police. And I'll do whatever they tell me to. I've said in BudgetRawDeal's press release that any action taken on behalf of this group will be peaceful and *legal. So take that as you want to, but it's the truth.

The reason why the liberty movement hasn't succeeded yet, (and the reason why our founders didn't succeed for very long), was that there was too much civil *disobedience as an undercurrent. Romans 13 says to obey the government, and so I am. I'm working within the system to help change the system.

So don't ever threaten me again, whoever you are Smitty.
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I doubt that was a threat. It was to show that innocent people have things happen to them by the PTB and that the demise of the innocent will the applauded by the elite, I'm pretty sure.
 
Craig Thompson said:
If that's a threat Smitty, then you're the #1 suspect now if anything happens to me.
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Threat?

No threat.

Just a comment on what happens to the mundanes in D.C.

It's the most paranoid place in the country.

I'm staying away from it.
 
Also,..

The primary purpose of a demonstration such as you describe is to show disapproval for a governmental policy.

,...nothing wrong with that,..but the government already knows that people disapprove of their actions.

They don't care.
 
That mother driving the car wasn't innocent, I'm not mundane, and we won't be the only ones there the next few days. And the primary purpose isn't disapproval of policy, because it's not policy yet. It's a proposed bill, and the purpose is to show support for those who are acting legally and voting what they were sent to the Senate to do.

And the government *does care - I saw it last time we were there, I saw it in '08, and you saw it the last few weeks by how they're trying to vilify the tea party (which was basically started by Ron Paul).

Best of luck to everyone on here, I'll be posting pics and videos on our facebook page, and keep up your activism with whatever means you choose to do it. You'll be much more effective if you put politics as your *last priority, and put a *whole bunch of other things before it - like God, work, family, friends, acquaintances, and hobbies. Then politics last. You'll be happier to make a positive difference in politics if all those other things are going well for you :)
 
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