{"id":21179,"date":"2012-04-04T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2012-04-04T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:23:41","slug":"polite-engagement-does-not-work-a-call-to-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2012\/polite-engagement-does-not-work-a-call-to-civil-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Polite engagement does not work&#8221;:  A call to civil disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21185 aligncenter\" title=\"boot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/boot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Mtumba Djibouti<\/p>\n<p>People (that is, citizens other than wind industry shills or community \u201crepresentatives\u201d\u2014council members, selectmen, etc.) need to understand: \u00a0your government does not give a damn about you. \u00a0It is beholden to greed and stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>Polite engagement will not work. \u00a0They do not care. \u00a0Your concerns will continue to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Gay activists in the USA in the 80s and 90s realized this and started a nearly universally derided and disparaged and mocked movement called Act Up! \u00a0Although government and media critics all said they were counter productive, the fact of the matter is HIV research only began in earnest after Act Up! crowds began civil disobedience\u2014occupying government buildings, blocking the streets, etc. \u00a0In the US, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) only began to take AIDS research seriously AFTER their offices were repeatedly occupied by shouting Act Up! crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The result is plain. \u00a0The government caved, research was done, and HIV is now a largely manageable disease. \u00a0Even though this disease affects more heterosexuals than gays, the government didn\u2019t give a damn. \u00a0But AIDs activism forced a change. \u00a0Not begging or pleading or asking quietly or politely\u2014but agitating.<\/p>\n<p>Governments don\u2019t like unpleasantness. \u00a0They don\u2019t want attention. \u00a0They like to operate under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>The squeaky wheel gets the grease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Mtumba Djibouti People (that is, citizens other than wind industry shills or community \u201crepresentatives\u201d\u2014council members, selectmen, etc.) need to understand: \u00a0your government does not give a damn about you. \u00a0It is beholden to greed and stupidity. Polite engagement will not work. \u00a0They do not care. \u00a0Your concerns will continue to be ignored. Gay activists in the USA in the 80s and 90s realized this and started a nearly universally derided and disparaged and mocked movement called Act Up! \u00a0Although government and media critics all said they were counter productive, the fact of the matter is HIV research only began in earnest after Act Up! crowds began civil disobedience\u2014occupying government buildings, blocking the streets, etc. \u00a0In the US, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) only began to take AIDS research seriously AFTER their offices were repeatedly occupied by shouting Act Up! crowds. The result is plain. \u00a0The government caved, research was done, and HIV is now a largely manageable disease. \u00a0Even though this disease affects more heterosexuals than gays, the government didn\u2019t give a damn. \u00a0But AIDs activism forced a change. \u00a0Not begging or pleading or asking quietly or politely\u2014but agitating. Governments don\u2019t like unpleasantness. \u00a0They don\u2019t want attention. \u00a0They like to operate under the radar. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171,157,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}