They have freedom from oversight and financial want as well as access to the truth. They have the opportunity to act with near impunity. To say they are against the war and do nothing is the worst kind of hypocrisy. As I write, just days after the U.S. attack on Iraq began, people are demonstrating all across the country. Actions range from teach-ins to vigils, marches, civil disobedience, and blocking traffic, to taking over buildings and institutions.
Participants come from every imaginable constituency.
While Bush and Co. cannot and will not hear our analyses or moral pleas, they do hear the threat of increasing and diversifying opposition. Though our opposition was not enough to prevent war from starting, it can prevent the war's enlargement, prevent nuclear assault, end the war, curtail the further militarization of our society, and win conversion. Shut down what should not be permitted, and fund what we need. The Berlin Wall was taken down by massive movements and then by average folks wielding crowbars. Shut it down.