Why aren't we protesting?

Question

The gas prices are going up to $3.23 a gallon. Speculators say $4.50 is to be expected.

What happened to the protests where masses of people would walk the streets holding signs and chanting what they want? They were stubborn about their rights and they eventually won them. If it wasn't for their actions, civil rights and women's rights wouldn't be the same today.

I've heard people say that it won't last too long when a new president is in office. Personally, I don't have faith that it will change much. If the new president does something to make the gas prices go down, something else will be rigged to drain our incomes.

I'm a teenager with a seasonal job. I get paid well, but with the gas prices I'm putting most of my paycheck towards the gas to get there! Any jobs closer to me wouldn't pay me worth my time...

This is our time to speak up. We need to find ways to protest openly or we're going to be screwed.

Why haven't we already?

Answer 1

Protest doesn't work.

Try direct action. That always gets peoples attention.

Answer 2

I think the oil companies know that gas is a in expendable commodity in our lives. They know that it will be super difficult for people to go without gas, even for a good cause.

It's a hard thing to get a lot of people behind.

Answer 3

Because the media hasn't gave us permission to we tend to rely on the media to make up our minds

Answer 4

as a teenager you have a lot to learn.  you can pprotest all you want if you think that will do any good.  they have us over a barrel and we cant do anything about it.  dont look for the politicians to do any more than to tell you what you want to hear.

Answer 5

Because we're more interested in sitting on Yahoo!Answers complaining about it.

Answer 6

What about Global Warming?

According to the IPCC reports we must reduce the world wide emissions of Carobn Dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels to less than one tenth of what they are today if we are to have any hope of stopping Global Warming.

In order to accomplish that we must ban the burning of all fossil fuels worldwide.

That means that we should not be using petroleum at all.

The price should be irrelevant.

We will have to find a way to get to work without burning fossil fuels like gasoline or diesel.

As a college student you should be setting an example. You should find a way to get to work that does not use fossil fuel at all.

Also, fossil fuels are a finite resource and we are running out of that resource. As the supply decreases the price increases that is inevitable.

Answer 7

Americans have become spineless wussies!

If our forefathers were alive today; they would lay siege to DC!

They would tar and feather all the politicians and hang them right the steps of their buildings.

They would leave them there for all to see what happens to those that s***w Americans!

      But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

This is quoted from the American Declaration of Independence!

Paladin; n, hero, champion, someone known championing a cause.

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."

          Samuel Adams

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and l**k the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."

           Samuel Adams

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

      Samuel Adams

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.  We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.  If we run into such debt, as we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds…  we will have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account, but we will be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers…  And this is the tendency of all human governments.  A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent foe another… till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery…  And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.  Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.

      Thomas Jefferson  1743-1826

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

       George Washington

"Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world"

       George Washington

"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."

       Abraham Lincoln

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”

        Abraham Lincoln

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

       Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

         Abraham Lincoln

     It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

     U.S. Supreme Court Justice : Robert H. Parker

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'

     Theodore Roosevelt

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

     Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom.

    Plato

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

      H L Mencken

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizen's firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99 99/100 percent of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that's good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour.

      George Washington

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."

        Thomas Jefferson

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

           Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

           Thomas Jefferson

      The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

       Mark Twain  1835 -1910

      In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned.    When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.

      Mark Twain   1835 -1910

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

     Edmund Burke

"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."

     Edmund Burke

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

    Edmund Burke

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

     Edmund Burke