Those people showed up to listen to impassioned speeches in the park, while peacefully waving banners and flags.
That's NOT what I'm talking about. Not even close.
Think more along the lines of the Arab Spring protests in Egypt. I'm talking Millions of angry, pissed off Americans, who are willing to break a few rules to get the attention of our elected reps and the rest of fedgov.
When MLK and his supporters marched through the South, that was civil disobedience. It caused a lot of friction. It got a lot of media attention. A lot of people went to jail, and some were even hurt.
But, it got the job done. Those people didn't bring guns, but they did bring their defiance and willingness to confront whatever brutality the state could deliver, in order to secure their rights.
And they changed a nation by doing so.
I think that most of us here have realized that the system is too corrupt to work within. Nothing but force, or a threat of force, is going to get them to move a muscle. But before we march on the Capitol with guns, we need to take next logical step, which is, unrelenting, massive protests, employing carefully crafted acts of civil disobedience.
If we don't take that next logical step, then we will find ourselves with no option BUT force to accomplish our ends. I'd rather get this done without bloodshed, and it is doable.
In a tyranny, all one needs to do is refuse to comply, defy and resist what they demand, and the Beast will go and make public examples of us in order to create a climate of fear.
Simply refusing to comply will engender the same results of getting attention without risk of getting mowed down with a mob by tyrants who have already declared us to be terrorists in government documents worthy of military response.