We are an engaged community of Idahoan who act on their feet and build with their hands. Many websites have come and gone, often in an election cycle flash, booming and busting through our online networks. Since the Spring of 2010 many outside groups, from corporate powered PACs like the Club for Growth or Koch Brothers, Inc. 'Liberty Titled' Think Tanks or Social Welfare organizations have travel
ed through our conversations in search for a buck and a vote, like a traveling circus with a Teamster cleanup crew. Sometimes promisingly spirited individuals of rare distinction arose, those in search of genuine engagement, the foundation for real grassroots momentum; like Ron Paul - No not when he was accused of plotting to commandeer Mitt's caucus victory, but when he came on talking tour back during Bush's profligate spending sprees and big government surveillance state legislation, or when Otter came back from D.C. to tell us how he couldn't believe they could calls such a piece of paper an act worthy of the name, let alone the pages it's printed on, the (so-called) Patriot Act. Otter opposed the measure, demonstratively, indignantly, but in a dignified manner. Those moments of intellectual and political gathering, sharing, and learning are worth several times the value of failed protests yelling at a building. If you want to look for illustrations of the paradox of explicit protest techniques just seek out coverage of the 'Add the Words' Campaign. The protesters scream, sing, and chant so many words into an echo chamber no one can even remember what words they want added. It's as if their movement's organizational masthead were '&&Etc..'
