Willravel

You read my mind. What worries me is that where the protests actually had a serious sociopolitical effect in the 60's, now it just seems to be laughed at and dismissed by most. The forms of non-violent protest that were once effective no longer have the effect they once had. Standing on a street corner with a flag and shouting at traffic won't stop this. Gathering at liberal colleges and shouting at more people won't stop this. IMO, non-violent protests/civili disobediance needs to evolve. There has to be a more large scale way to get the message out there to people who just watch CNN and FOXnews. Those are the sheeple that are the problem. We need to remind people of alternate media (like Free Speech TV, dish channel 9415), the media that isn't relying on funds from AOL/Time Warner. We need to reach people over the internet. We need to boycott irresponsible news networks.

We have a responsibility to ourselves, our children, and our country to make sure that we the people remain in power. This country is supposed to be a democracy, in other words the people in this country are responsible for the activities of state. Our state is torturing people, invading countries in order to control world oil, banning and destroying civili liberties and a lot of people are simply going along with it. It is not the government's responsibility to regulate itself, it is ours. Checks and balances doesn't work when all three branches are afflicted.