Daddy Warbucks: Forgotten Hero's In Federal Prison

That is strange. Grow some balls and reveal yourself. I mean your previous names.

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"My role in the revolution is to wake up the lemmings of this country, who sit back and accept the pablum the media feeds them"
Jesse Ventura
Ventura/Paul 2008
http://www.gopetition.com...

My initial reaction to Dr. Paul's decision to suspend his campaign was negative...but folks I see a method to this stradigy now.

Don't waste the remaining cash on the election fraud circuit...let's build this REVOLUTION ( awakening ) with our funds and momentum.

Discover Costa Rica

You say: "Just vote the bums out of office."

I say: And what if they voted against the bums and lost anyway? Should they give up their rights simply because the bums were elected by a majority?
Or rather, are human rights above being taken away, even by a majority? Should we obey a law even if it's morally wrong?

Thoreau says: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison...If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight...If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood."

What I take from this is that it's completely wrong to think that the only way you are supposed to try to influence the government is by voting. Really, that is the smallest way you can affect the government. Not only can we affect the government in other more powerful ways, we are supposed to. It is our duty. And the message of "Civil Disobedience" (or one of its many messages) is that since no man, no group of men, and therefore no government, has the right to remove us from our rights, we should live as though they cannot.
All I'm asking you is to read Thoreau's essay and find exactly what you disagree with in it. You couldn't know how powerful and relevant it is here unless you read it.
What's more, someone else on this thread has it right by wondering what the government could really even do if a number of us behaved as Thoreau calls us to: refusing to acknowledge the government's authority to tax our incomes.