MILLION VOTER MARCH ON WASHINGTON



   Since it appears that both the Whitehouse and Congress are oblivious to the will of the people being expressed in this new world of the internet it's time that the American Voter take a lesson from history.  A lesson from the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam Era Anti-War Protest and converge on Washington in a peaceful manner to get our point across and effect change. 

   In the past year we have seen such peaceful protest around the world make a difference and force change in many countries.  Has the internet made Americans so lazy that they will only sit at their keyboards and complain?  Prehaps it is time we join together, load up a few thousand buses and sit on the steps of the capitol.  Prehaps it is time we organize and exercise our right to peaceful protest in the real world.

   Granted the internet has given us a unparalled opportunity to express our opinions and communicate with people around the world.  However opinions expressed online do little to effect change when those leading our nation simply have such opinions placed in a spam folder for deletion.  As we have recently witnessed in civil protest around the world the internet does provide a vehicle to organize a unified voice of civil protest across all nations.  A voice that is not bound by political parties and ineffective political leaders.

   If the American voters unified across the nation on a single day and converged in peaceful protest in Washington and major cities across the United States in a unified peaceful voice we would be heard.  If congress will not rise above partisian politics unified Americans can.  The internet is a beautiful tool for organization but a very ineffective one for actual change.  A million voters on the Washington Mall carries more power than a billion emails or blogs.  Have we become so lazy and so complacient that we find the internet our only voice? 

   Prehaps it's time we return to the foundation of our independence and take to the streets as an organized, peaceful and unified voice demanding real change now.