How to succeed in arresting the unaccountability of power? Tyranical power at that? In a book called The First American Revolution, Ray Raphael, of the Howard Zinn school of a people's history, tracks the movements and methods people used to unseat the British government, township by township throughout Massachusettes, by 1774,before any shot was fired at Lexington. It is worth a serious read by all peace and social justice activists. How to organize that unified field for the rule of law against tyrrany, NOT THE RULE OF LAW FOR TYRRANY.

What I raise below is not the answer, it is a very serious question.

Tyrrany by definition is law-less-ness. For government servants to use the LAW, as YOO, Bibee and the whole criminal load of them used, FOR LAW-LESS-NESS, and for the body politic to have this weak immune response, to not have the muscle to arrest these sick-making criminals in their tracks, shows a deep lack of health in the body politic. It is far from the body politic which produced the first american revolution in Mass. of which Raphael writes so well.

How to return a vigorous health into the body politic so it may arrest this decay towards tyrrany in itself?

Of course the body politic today is as deeply hetrogenous in every way as it was homogenous in 1774 Mass. In the face of this new demographic, how to galvanize mass interest in human rights law?

Do you really believe, asking for donations to organize protests, and what you do, is the correct use of collective resources? Would it not be better if you started serious anti-torture/war/lawlessness, for rule of law, door to door campaigns, that put ALL YOUR SUPPORTERS face to face with fellow citizens to talk about the lawlessness that RULES THE NATION? Should not that be how pooled resources are better spent? Developing campaign literature and everyone working in their neighbourhood of choice, in the local orgnizational structures, neighbourhood organizations, religious institutions, schools and university campuses, with their local politicians? A true grassroots mobilization for the rule of law? I am wondering along with you. I have no doubt we are all pondering our effectiveness and wondering how to tip the scales so indeed, we establish in the world, the vigourousness of the best in American democarcy its institutions, and its historical roots.