not one damn dime day, silent protest Options

[banddorko]

here's the deal: on january 20th (president bush's inauguration), there is going to be a nationwide silent protest against the war in iraq. to participate all you have to do is not spend any money at all on that day- that's it.

for more information, go here.

one of my friends told me about this and i thought it was very cool. if you support this please tell everyone you know and try to get them to participate. put a link in your profile. start a chain email. make a topic on another forum. tell your friends. i obviously am going to be participating (and wearing my homemade "impeach bush" t-shirt ). i hope some of you will participate too.


if you don't think this is a good idea or don't agree with it, please don't post it here. i really don't want this to be a debate, i just wanted to inform you guys of it. thanks.

[sammehmyst]

Interesting, but probably the most retarded protest ever.
That's just my opinion though. <:S

[edit]
I just looked on that website over again, and here's kind of why I think (smaller reasons) why it makes no sense.

1) People are going to spend money anyway. What's the point?
2) What type of name is "Not One Damn Dine." Or whatever it's called.
3) If you researched the war in Iraq like a smart person instead of just following the news, you would understand why we have all this Iraq war crud. The news is just a lying machine that makes money.

[banddorko]

Interesting, but probably the most retarded protest ever.

i can see why people would think that, but i'm surprised that people have never heard of this kind of protest before.

What type of name is "Not One Damn Dine." Or whatever it's called.

i was thinking about that too... i guess they thought alliteration was cool?

People are going to spend money anyway. What's the point?

the point is to show that you don't approve of the war? of course people are going to spend money, but for one day whoever started this wants to put a dent in the economy (again, it won't work unless lots of people participate though).

If you researched the war in Iraq like a smart person instead of just following the news, you would understand why we have all this Iraq war crud. The news is just a lying machine that makes money.

i have researched, and from all the things i've read i have concluded that i think this war is pointless (most of what i read DID had a slightly liberal spin on it, though). if bush would've looked at what happened to the british when they tried to control the country, he would've known that going in there for any reason is not worth it. but if you have any great articles or websites to show me so i can be more informed on the situation, PM me and i will gladly read them.

[sammehmyst]

the point is to show that you don't approve of the war? of course people are going to spend money, but for one day whoever started this wants to put a dent in the economy (again, it won't work unless lots of people participate though).

To show you don't approve of the war? It's not like we have ANY control of it. There's NO POINT, no silent little protest is going to change anything. Putting a dent in the economy is sort of pointless also, because this date is clearly close and about 50% of the people who read this probably will not do anything, and not even 50 percent of america will most likely read it since my research concludes that only 70% of america uses the internet.