Comments on: Putting the Question http://firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:27:28 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: buckfush http://firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53925 buckfush Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:08:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53925 <p>We can do something about this. Create a mass consumer product boycott against Republican contributors and then make demands of these company CEOs.</p> <p>The Republican party appears vulnerable in this way. We cannot pressure Republican office holders directly but what CEO of a company that gives money to Republican officeholder wants thousands of people calling him and telling him, we will boycott your products until you get the GOP to do what WE want.</p> <p>Join the campaign for progressive legislation. Browse <a href="http://www.boycott-republicans.com">http://www.boycott-republicans.com</a></p> We can do something about this. Create a mass consumer product boycott against Republican contributors and then make demands of these company CEOs.

The Republican party appears vulnerable in this way. We cannot pressure Republican office holders directly but what CEO of a company that gives money to Republican officeholder wants thousands of people calling him and telling him, we will boycott your products until you get the GOP to do what WE want.

Join the campaign for progressive legislation. Browse http://www.boycott-republicans.com

]]> By: prostratedragon http://firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53916 prostratedragon Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:47:59 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53916 <p>D’oh! Hello, lambert.</p> <p>I made remarks (give <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/crooks/7576/#946094">www.haloscan.com/crooks/7576/#946094</a> a try; it might not work) on CL about your Bubble Squad post and even referred to this post here<br /> (that’d be <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/crooks/7576/#946169">www.haloscan.com/crooks/7576/#946169</a>) before I realized who you were.</p> D’oh! Hello, lambert.

I made remarks (give http://www.haloscan.com/crooks/7576/#946094 a try; it might not work) on CL about your Bubble Squad post and even referred to this post here
(that’d be http://www.haloscan.com/crooks/7576/#946169) before I realized who you were.

]]> By: MsAnnaNOLA http://firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53902 MsAnnaNOLA Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:30:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53902 <p>Yes. Exactly. Our most basic constitutional potections from tyranny are at stake. I actually read the Federalist Papers in school and it really, really means a lot to me when people quote the Federalist Papers. They give such a great insight as to what the fouders were thinking and they are very clear and accessable. </p> <p>We cannot afford to set a precident of glossing over law breaking by anyone in charge of government. Any government officer that is complicit should be removed if for no other reason that it creates a precident that this is acceptable. Law breaking is unacceptable and law breakers must be removed.</p> Yes. Exactly. Our most basic constitutional potections from tyranny are at stake. I actually read the Federalist Papers in school and it really, really means a lot to me when people quote the Federalist Papers. They give such a great insight as to what the fouders were thinking and they are very clear and accessable.

We cannot afford to set a precident of glossing over law breaking by anyone in charge of government. Any government officer that is complicit should be removed if for no other reason that it creates a precident that this is acceptable. Law breaking is unacceptable and law breakers must be removed.

]]> By: wil*on46201 http://firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53899 wil*on46201 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:04:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/03/19/putting-the-question/#comment-53899 <p>a very Fein Fitz !</p> a very Fein Fitz !

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