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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 09:53 PM
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TV Blackout movement for 9pm (EST)-12 midnight tomorrow!!!!
Edited on Sat Dec-17-05 09:54 PM by cantstandbush
No decent American should even listen to the media tomorrow at all but certainly all like-minded citizens who are outraged by this administrations trashing of our Consititution should turn off their radios and TVs tomorrow at 9pm est. and leave them off until Monday in protest of the fascism taking over our nation. It's and easy thing to do. You don't even have to travel to Crawford and stand in the cold to join in this protest!!

Please post this on as many sites as you can. In addition to the orange ribbon movement, let's start with the Click-off movement.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 09:57 PM
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1. What about listening to Laura Flanders?
I kinda like her, she seems intelligent and witty.
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Clara T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 09:59 PM
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2. What TV?
Why would anyone allow their mind to be so polluted?

Avoid brain damage when possible.
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CrazyOrangeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:02 PM
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4. you said it sister . . .
. . . there hasn't been anything worth watching anyhow, since Carol Burnett went off the air . . .

;)
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:00 PM
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3. NOT a problem.
:) I live my sig.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:03 PM
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5. Sure thing, will do.
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:05 PM
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6. I have to ask a silly question
I'm not trying to be difficult, but I don't see the point in this? Unless you are a Nielsen household, no one will know if you're not watching or listening, so how does this send a message?
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:17 PM
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7. Just the idea that millions will be talking about not watching will send
them in a tizzy. It means we are not listening to their shit anymore and we might just blackout any other event in protest which means we will not be seeing or hearing commercials and the sponsors will have a fit. It's a small act of willful neglect and disrespect for Bush who deserves nothing less. To be ignored is the worst kind of humiliation.
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jim3775 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:20 PM
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10. You make it sound like television is bush 24/7
It isn't.
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:40 PM
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11. I'm sorry, but I just don't think they'll really care or notice.
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 01:50 PM
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20. no it won't
Is there any plan to communicate to "them" that nobody's watching? Is there any plan to prove to "them" that anyone actually followed through with the plan?

The OP says that this will be easy. It's precisely because it's so easy that it won't do any good. Change never came about because someone did something that was easy.
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jim3775 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:19 PM
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8. I'm with you
What exactly does this accomplish? How does not watching television in general protest anything?
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 12:40 AM
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15. Because Agent Mike won't be able to look into your bedroom.
They do thet, you know, look in on you while you're watching them. That's how they can tell if you're stealing HBO or not.
:tinfoilhat:
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 01:39 PM
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17. Oh, I forgot - that's how they control my mind too.
They must need a better system - I have no self control.

:tinfoilhat:
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 09:05 AM
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16. The networks can tell how many sets that are on
by how much of their signal is used up.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 10:20 PM
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9. Not hard to do, since the only thing we watch on Sunday's are movie DVDs.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 11:22 PM
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12. I Would Have to Turn the TV ON in Order to Turn it Off
About the only things I've watched lately have been CSPAN, election coverage, and hurricane coverage.

There isn't much on worth watching.
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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-17-05 11:24 PM
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13. it's not cold here. I am 20 miles from B*'s ranch... nt/
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 12:00 AM
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14. I'll be watching Duke bastketball... n/t
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Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 01:44 PM
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18. I'll watch Forrest Gump
He's far more intelligent than Bloody George.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-18-05 01:48 PM
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19. I think it'd do a lot more good to do this. Write your congress people
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5623819&mesg_id=5623819
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