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Civil Disobedience - Burn the Census Form?
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Posted on 03/21/2010 9:11:09 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear

There's been a lot of talk on FR about "Civil Disobedience." Back when I was a kid, filthy disease ridden hippies burned their draft cards to protest against the Viet Nam War.

Should we respond to Obamacare by burning our census forms in a public act of civil disobedience?

Does anyone have any better idea?


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KEYWORDS: 2010census; disobedience; obamacare; protest; vanity
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To: mlinehan
To the best of your ability, cut off the federal cash flow.

For example, decrease your withholding to zero, and put it in a savings account instead, denying them the money until March next year when you write your annual income tax check.

If everyone did this at the same time, it would so severely cut off the feds cash flow, they would be crippled.

I wish some anonymous group would organize several million taxpayers to quit paying their taxes all at the same time. This would be considered sedition, but if millions did it, the government couldn't go after all of us.

41 posted on 03/21/2010 9:58:08 PM PDT by bjcintennessee (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff)
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To: Grizzled Bear

yes - if you live in a Democrap area. if you live in a conservative area, you’re shooting yourself in the foot by not responding.


42 posted on 03/21/2010 9:59:52 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: 1rudeboy

File it in the circular file cabinet.


43 posted on 03/21/2010 10:07:12 PM PDT by Mister Muggles (.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Fired 21 rounds ( i live in the sticks so nobody freak ) and turned my flag upside down....nobody will see it, but it makes me feel better...thinkin’ about putting an upside down flag on my truck, next to my Gadsden flag...


44 posted on 03/21/2010 10:10:16 PM PDT by waterhill (Screw You, We're From TEXAS. We're From TEXAS, Screw You...)
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To: Domandred

My initial thought was a general strike that shuts down the economy for a day or two. I could use a couple of days off.


45 posted on 03/21/2010 10:10:44 PM PDT by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: is_is

Fly Your American Flag at Half Staff on Monday March 22 in sorry and remembrance of the loss of our freedom to the Obama Nation.


46 posted on 03/21/2010 10:21:03 PM PDT by Shade_Trees_56
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To: Grizzled Bear; All

If you’re in a free state, fill out the number in your household. No groupthink info for race-baiting, preference-pushing, set-aside-seeking parasites and their racial spoils system.

If you’re in an urban failure, just trash it. They’re losing population but making up for it in gerrymandering, illegal aliens, and vote fraud. The sooner they lose reps the better.


47 posted on 03/21/2010 10:21:20 PM PDT by BobbyT
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To: is_is

Fly Your American Flag at Half Staff on Monday March 22 in sorry and remembrance of the loss of our freedom to the Obama Nation.


48 posted on 03/21/2010 10:21:30 PM PDT by Shade_Trees_56
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To: April Lexington

Don’t do that...
Fly it with a Gadsen flag underneath it. And a flag with the M-16 on it that says “Come and take it”

Remember that the foes we are dealing with hate the American Flag and what it stands for, if they could they would be rid of it in a second. The Liberals and Obama think the American flag stands for “Fascism” “Racism” and “Imperialist war mongering”


49 posted on 03/21/2010 10:24:07 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: PERKY2004

Is there anything wrong with mailing the Census form in that envelope, then attaching the envelope to a brick?


50 posted on 03/21/2010 10:25:48 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: TheConservativeParty

I agree.

But you be prepared to listen to those short thinkers who come along and say “I fought in a war for that flag” or some variation on the theme.

I always correct those guys by telling them “No, you fought for what that flag represented, not the flag. You would put your life at risk for cloth?” As often as not they don’t get it.

It is NOT disrespectful to fly it upside down under these circumstances!


51 posted on 03/21/2010 10:28:21 PM PDT by Nik Naym (My new business plan : open a chain of stores that sell hot tar, feathers, rope, and lamp posts.)
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To: neverbluffer

Thanks. I filled the darned thing out; although it bothered me giving them information such as my name and birthdate. Oh well.


52 posted on 03/21/2010 10:36:46 PM PDT by publana (Time to go Galt.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Only if you live in a blue state.


53 posted on 03/21/2010 10:43:22 PM PDT by Caesar Soze
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To: Thunder90

That seems like a mean thing to do to a poor, innocent brick. (grin)


54 posted on 03/21/2010 10:53:13 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud military wife of a pilot ~ Praying for him and for all our troops!)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Don’t you get it yet? The Elite could care less about your likes, dislikes, wants, needs. It’s over. This is all a done deal. Burning a little piece of paper ain’t gonna cut it.
What I’m going to do is kick back and figure out a way to screw the system while you good folk keep on believing. Just read about a black kid in New Orleans. He had 9 illigitimate children he was getting $13,500 a month for from the government. Now they want me dumb and stupid like this guy. Hey I can do it. I think it’s time we all get dumb and stupid.


55 posted on 03/21/2010 11:00:57 PM PDT by ladyL
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To: Grizzled Bear
Just answer the first question on the number of people who live at the address.

If you work for someone, take more dependents, after all, you have all those deadbeats and government workers to support. Don't forget the car companies and the banks, etc.

For starters: Stay connected and get involved with GOP or Tea Party or whatever. Use your anger to drive you to solutions. Use it to keep you motivated. You are losing the country you love and what it could be. Fight. Take no more PC. Refute pinheads when they mouth the left dribble. Make them put facts up to support their positions. Be sure you have your facts ready. Read the Constitution and keep it handy.

56 posted on 03/21/2010 11:17:50 PM PDT by UpInArms (without failure there's no success only slavery)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Really? Why give them an inch at all. Keep the form but don’t send it in.


57 posted on 03/22/2010 12:04:55 AM PDT by BenKenobi ("we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be")
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To: Nik Naym

I’d just say my husband fought in the current war for that flag. That’d shut ‘em up.

We’re out in the sticks anyway. Only see the UPS man and the postal carrier (who is my pal).

I’ve wanted to fly the flag in the distress signal position since Jan.20, 2009.

November can’t get here too soon, and then the 2012 elections. But what will be left by then?

I’m of the stand up and fight mentality with the bunch of leftists we’re dealing with. We’ll fight with the ballot box first. Of course there’s always the risk that over time the lefties will just deem a winner by way of massive voter fraud and counting fraud. He who counts the votes decides the election, and I don’t put anything past these SOBs.

End of Rant

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Thanks to all those who went to DC to represent us when our gov’t clearly is no longer there to bend to the will of the People. Thanks for trying. We will be heard in November.


58 posted on 03/22/2010 4:54:47 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Lady NRA Member "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: waterhill

I’m out in the country too. I might just feel better if I did a little stress relief by firing off a few dozen rounds. Heck, I bought enough ammo since Nov.2008. Might as well use some.

November is coming. We need to overcome dem voter fraud, but I think enough of us old fashioned Americans will crawl over broken glass if need be, to vote every dem out of office.


59 posted on 03/22/2010 5:02:07 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Lady NRA Member "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Grizzled Bear

If you live in a blue state, chuck it.

If you live in a red state, then fill it out.


60 posted on 03/22/2010 5:06:40 PM PDT by kevao
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