"If the protesters do things like civil-disobedience acts and the government still refuses to listen, what can people do to make the government listen?" Future tactics suggested by protest leaders include hit-and-run occupations (an approach they call Guerilla Occupy), refusal to pay taxes, and other methods of insubordinance aimed at making Hong Kong more difficult to govern.
The warning came after a Suffolk County superior judge on Wednesday vacated a temporary restraining order barring the police from moving to evict the protesters, who have been camped in Dewey Square, a grassy area in Boston's financial district, since Sept. 30 in one of the nation's largest and consistently running occupations.
And an open spat between the White House and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over who is running occupation policy shattered the image of a unified administration.
Other models look after Baltar on the "cylon basestar" and run the occupation government on New Caprica.
Secretary Powell has also endorsed a significant role for the United Nations, while ruling out having that body actually run the occupation.
But he completely overhauled the subject headings to reflect modern concerns: the fifth edition opens with "The Body and the Senses," runs through "Occupations and Crafts" and ends with "Science and Technology".
Someday, in the months ahead, there may be an Iraq where a smoothly run American occupation authority has dealt devastating setbacks to terrorism, brought security to most of the country, improved infrastructure and basic services, and elicited encouraging signs of democracy, economic renewal and cultural rebirth.
Here's a quick, very recent oral history from those who have been protesting, hogging the picket lines and running the occupations at Universities around the country.
At first, the Defense Department, which runs the occupation, resisted handing over financial control of Iraq's rebuilding.
The draft law, he added, also had the approval of the Pentagon and the State Department, as well as the governments of Britain and Australia, which are taking part in running the occupation.
Our occupations run the gamut of possibilities and if it was permitted, we would even run for the highest political office in the land.
