Invite pensioned UN peacekeeping and peacemaking officers and diplomats, the few outstanding OSCE mission leaders. Let citizens compare them with Anna Lindh, Goran Persson, Javier Solana, Robin Cook and Nyrup Rasmussen, today's self-styled peacemakers who favoured bombing yesterday. Just give them equal media opportunity. The audiences in Gothenburg and the world, the viewers on CNN and BBC, will be perfectly able to judge who has the knowledge, the ethics and the visions this world needs. There should be no criticism without what Gandhi called the constructive program.
People are tired of negative criticism, it's too easy.
They seldom have a chance to meet ordinary people. Again, dialogues through a multitude of channels is the only means that will succeed, but of course it takes a bit longer time than the pushing through of EU decisions or the smashing of a few windows. Put them on various websites and newsgroups and print them on a single page and hand the lists to journalists, police and decision-makers. Share them with like-minded groups. Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre.