Brian, I tend to agree with most of what you have proposed. I just need to think about the practicalities.

A phrase popped into my head the other day. Maybe I'll use it in a song, but it certainly has stuck with me: "If I have the ability to cause change, I have the responsibility to cause change."

On a side note, I do have to take exception to your point that we all are responsible for what our government does. Like the majority of voting Americans, I have never cast a vote for Bush ;-)

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