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For many years, pro-lifers have expended vast time, energy, and money “marching on Washington” every January, to exactly zero effect. Worse, they hark back to pro-redistribution events. And always, as with the latest 9/12 extravaganza, headed by red-state fascists, the marchers assemble on the “National Mall,” the government grass that extends from Lincoln’s Roman temple — where he sits enthroned like Jupiter, fasces and all — to George Washington’s obelisk, an Eqyptian monument to the god Amon Re. In the distance is the capitol, whose dome copies the Roman pantheon, temple to all the gods. In the top of the dome is a painting of Washington being assumed, like the divinized Julius Caesar, into Heaven upon his death. Even Jefferson is portrayed as a god in a Roman temple. Not far away is the the Greek temple where the nine supremes hand down the “law.” Then there is the vast executive apparatus, headed by a living god, and dedicated to killing, spying, taxing, redistributing, inflating, and controlling, symbolized by the Pentagram. Really, DC is one nasty place. So why would anyone concerned about the state and its power “march on Washington”? Such events only dissipate energy, and fool people into thinking that their time and money have accomplished something, as the regime laughs up its sleeve. Indeed, that is the purpose. So stay home. Read, write, work, organize, and avoid DC like the plague it is.

Written by Lew Rockwell

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ORIGINAL: Chimortis

Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/35963.html

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Letter writing is good but It'll change the opinion of one MP out of how many in total? At PMQT you’ll see these MP’s raise their constituents questions but the reply from the PM is often equivalent to ‘thanks for bringing this to my attention’ or they'll give some statistical fudge demonstrating how those concerns are no longer valid.

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I think the value of a demonstration is that it brings attention to a given issue and can serve to enlist more people in support of said issue to contact their given representative(s) about the issue. The demonstration itself may be more spectacle than anything else but the fallout can be positive.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig
And when the PM gets letters from his constituents (the ones in his riding, the ones who actually elect him)...when the majority of MPs get the same sorts of letters...well that's how you change things. Scare them...threaten their pocket books,just like anybody else.

And if you can't get enough people to write to enough MPs, then guess what....not enough people agree with you, and your position is pretty much doomed.

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The PM is manoeuvred into the safest seat so he has zero chance of not getting re-elected. Probably you can look through history and see a sitting PM has never failed to get re-elected because of this. The problem is the system was built around this idea that local people are represented by local MP's (those MP's being from those local communities.) Now the political parties have taken over just playing the numbers game in terms of which seats have the biggest margins. (the same reason no major political figure will campaign in my area in the lead up to an election) For those safest seats they'll place people from far away to represent them only taking into consideration who they definitely want in the government or opposition.

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Then after addressing this you have to work out how you are going to get equal representation in government for ethnic minorities when such communities are concentrated in only a few areas of the country. This is the opposite problem.