What are the top three most effective tools to effect government

[Flabbergasted]

policy?


I'd go with:

Boycotts
Ethical purchase standards
Civil Disobedience

[PetraPooh]

1. Money to contribute, money to pay for propaganda, money to

cover our own arses while and after they are hanging out in public displays of boycotts and civil disobedience.

[Flabbergasted]

2. I'd appreciate non-cynical answers. Thanks

[PetraPooh]

5. Not cynical, just accurate.

[Flabbergasted]

6. I was asking for what we have? Not what the capitalist have!

[AndyTiedye]

14. What Tools WE Have?

<crickets>

[Flabbergasted]

21. If that is your belief then that is certainly what you have!

[scipian]

13. good ideas (???)

I geuss: protests, voting in good democrats, and showing a good example. Prove that we're better than they are.

[AndyTiedye]

15. Money to BUY Television Networks

[PetraPooh]

18. Okay I thought of something.

It is out there a bit, but folks aren't going to "not pay their taxes" because most citizens get refunds. SOOOOO, what if we all changed from the "accurate" number of exemptions/dependents extracted from our paychecks, form W2 I think or is it W4 I can never remember, to a much higher number. It may mean that at the end of the year we all pay a little rather than getting a refund, but it would be a noticeable monetary shortage if each and every civilly disobedient person raised that number of "dependents" to 9. It isn't illegal or anything like that so it wouldn't/couldn't be stopped. It would be noticed each and every month when our income tax deposits to the federal government are noticably less. It would add up to a great deal of cash out of the government.

[The Doctor.]

3. Guns...

More guns...

And the will to use them.

Mao Tse tong said.

[Flabbergasted]

8. What use is a gun against an army? Effective tools!

[Demeter]

16. I Think We Have the Army, Too

Pretty close to the majority, by now.

[The Doctor.]

20. "Change comes from the barrel of a gun"- Mao Tse Tong n/t

[C_U_L8R]

4. Your vote

and every new vote YOU bring to the ballot with you.

[valerief]

7. You need a legit voting system first. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

17. One thing's for certain

the Republicans never have to actually RIG
a single voting machine if they can get all the
Dems discouraged and believing that
their vote isn't going to count.

Genius actually....

So lets get out the vote and stop this
"my vote isn't gonna count" nonsense

[acmejack]

9. Actually, the money to contribute is the sadly a great truth.

Abramoff proved it to most of our satisfaction, the only real doubters seem to be in Congress, namely the members who rejected any ethics reform with teeth.

After that I would have to say civil disobedience, I don't see boycotts as being a particularly effective anti-Governmental tool.

The third tool is the law suit. A good lawyer can make life a living hell for your victim(s).

[Vincardog]

10. Candidates

[rzemanfl]

11. Judging from Iraq they would be:

Car bombs
IEDs
RPGs

[paul_fromatlanta]

12. Giagantic marches are up there

[OneBlueSky]

19. sad . . . there was a time when the only answer to this question . . .

would have been "The Vote" . . .

alas, in the age of DRE's, this is no longer true . . .

[leftofthedial]

22. money

money

and money

although on occasion weapons grade anthrax can also weild influence