Radical Anti-Bush Group Plans to Block Bush Inauguration

By Jeremy Reynalds
Talon News
November 9, 2004

A radical anti-Bush activist group that has never accepted the legitimacy of the Bush administration is calling for what it has dubbed "The Grand Refusal."

In a four-stage plan laid out in an e-mail to supporters, one portion reads, "Stage 3 will include but will not be limited to: Inauguration protests (Block Bush Swearing In: No Inauguration for Bush!)."

In stage one, supporters are advised, "Do not consume at normal levels. Do not buy any surplus goods or make other major purchases. Do not purchase entertainment goods and boycott the corporate media as much as possible. Only do what you have to do to survive. And, get others involved. Help get Citizens For Legitimate Government's Grand Refusal Coalition in motion. Help build the Grand Refusal! Once we reach critical mass, we will launch Stage 2."

Stage two, the writer comments, will include protests in every city and stage four will involve "Massive Walkouts!"

Supporters are further advised to "send the Grand Refusal and Grand Refusal Coalition link to every true citizen you know.

"We must build critical mass and awareness of the election theft and what we are doing about it," the message continues. "Spread the word. We need to build momentum to grow the CLG's Grand Refusal Coalition and move to the next stage."

Another portion of the same e-mail, refers to an interview that the Bush administration's Karl Rove had with Fox News.

The writer quotes from Rove, who reportedly said, "I spent a lot of time looking in Ohio, and a lot of time looking in Florida."

CLG, dubbing Fox News as "Faux News," then comments "That's not *all* you did, whackjob!"

According to its web site, Citizens For Legitimate Government (CLG) is a "multi-partisan activist group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat, and to oppose the occupation in all of its manifestations."

"We are an activist group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat, making him utterly ineffectual as a putative leader," the group describes on its web site. "This effort involves opposing his cabinet choices when appropriate (i.e., in all cases), making spectacular political announcements that remind the public that our president was not elected ... supporting and contributing to the voter marches, supporting and contributing to the efforts to investigate fraudulent voting and non-counting practices in Florida, and much, much more."

Again according to the group's web site, "GW Bush seized office by 'virtue' of a contingency of GOPers who worked to ensure him, by various means (propaganda, obstruction of justice, voter and vote-counting intimidation, legal delay, specious and biased legal reasoning, an illegal purge of the voting rolls, illegally counted absentee ballots, discarded legal Democratic ballots, and other factors) the U.S. presidency, as against the expressed will of the people, both nationally and in Florida."