Go Ahead....Cut Your Nose Off!

A handful of radical democrats are encouraging an anti-Bush boycott in an effort to foil the gaiety of inauguration Day:

DETROIT (AP) -

David Livingstone says the idea behind the economic boycott he's organizing is simple: If people don't show up at work or buy things, companies lose money. As he sees it, that's money the Bush administration can't tax, and can't use to run the war in Iraq, protect polluters or chip away at the Constitution.

So the Detroit Democrat and a handful of other anti-Bush groups across the country are urging others of like mind to withhold their cash and labor on Inauguration Day - from all businesses. They don't think they'll inflict a huge economic pain, but they do want to make a point.

"I view the inauguration of Bush as a black Thursday for this country," Livingstone says. "We've tried marching in the streets to stop the war, we tried writing letters, we tried initiatives on the Web, but Bush doesn't listen. It seems to us the only thing Bush and the Republicans will listen to is money."

Livingstone, a 41-year-old writer, hopes to be in Washington for the Jan. 20 festivities, which for him means protests, black armbands and backs turned to the parade route.

And he's vowing not to buy gas, food or use his credit card that day: He wants the GOP, big oil, big banking, big box stores and any other "bigs" to know they can't push him around or ignore him - at least not on Jan. 20.

Let's see, now...stay home from work, don't buy anything, (might as well go ahead and fast), wear black armbands and turn your back on the parade route. So what part of the protest is meant to punish President Bush?

Seems to me that the actions of the radical left only end up hurting themselves; don't work, don't buy anything, don't defend your nation, don't overpopulate the world, don't eat meat, don't drive SUV's, encourage abortions, promote homosexuality, malign Judeo-Christian moral values, eschew diversity of ideas, and refuse to tolerate those who don't accept your political agenda. Is there any wonder why radical leftists are being marginalized?