Facebook Post 2-8-17: A Call for Economic Protest and Boycott Against Trump

Since this government doesn't want to listen to the people, I think it does not have the right to ask anything of the people. So I think everyone, in addition to protesting on tax day, should withhold paying their federal taxes. Since the only language Trump seems to understand is money. This would be an economic protest even he would have to notice.

[In response to follow-up conversation on my Facebook wall]

So really it would have to be business owners and government payroll people who would have to decline to automatically take out the certain taxes. And certain business people and local/state governments are already (rightly, in my mind) defying Herr Trump's bullshit, so why not this as well? If even 1/6 of the population declined to pay their federal taxes, that's 50 million people. You can't try to fine or imprison 50 million people en masse; there would be (justified) riots and insurrection.

Introduction

Since Donald Trump was sworn into office, I have been vocal and outspoken on my personal Facebook page regarding my feelings on the matter, and the grave danger I believe he poses to this nation. I am also endeavoring to become more engaged, and effective in my engagement. I plan to protest, and to keep speaking up. To join up with others against this man, and hopefully help to organize a concerted resistance. As part of this goal, I wish to take my statements and warnings from Facebook, and into the general public, where they can be more broadly aired and where hopefully I can engage with more likeminded people. The internet is the Political Pamphlet of the 21st Century, and I would like to start publishing my own.

In addition to being a platform for my own voice, I hope to also use this as a platform for other voices, so that we can become a growing chorus against Trumpism. I also hope that this can be a vehicle for further organization and direct action. I will figure out a way to be reached via this blog so that people can contact me with their own voice and what they would like to say.

To catch up, I will be publishing "highlights" from my Facebook posts up to the present, along with links to the articles that I was typically commenting on when I wrote. From there, I will post my statements here, with links to this blog on my Facebook.

We need to create not a moment, but a movement. The life of the nation depends on it.