It's not that simple ...

Arthur Silber asks:

So what is your choice? Do the world -- and your life, and the lives of those you love -- mean so little to you, that you will risk losing them all? Is that what you want? Do you still choose to do nothing?

Do you?

He's says we should do something more than writing letters. We should do something like they did in the 60's. If I remember rightly, and I'm definitely not a historian, the impetus for the civil rights marches started with churches and college students. And those marches, and other forms of civil disobedience, were reported and televised.

Today, churches seem to be on the side of authoritarianism. Rights and justice just don't seem to interest them. I don't know where college students stand today but I think they are quite aware that the protests against the Iraq war were hardly reported or televised. All that effort went down one big black hole.

In addition it's much easier, and more immediate, to look around you and see the injustices of segregation than to look into the future and understand what will happen if/when a criminal US attacks Iran. Specially when the media, the medium we depend upon to help inform us of facts, instead weaves fantasy while sending those facts down another big black hole.