Would you rather protest to address one single decision or would you rather address the "root causes?"

Whatever happened to the notion of changing the system from within?

Let's try something simple -- very simple -- as between artificial entities that are incorporated within one state or another and the citizens of the states or the nation is there mutuality regarding the key goal of our government of preserving Liberty? A baby step is to assure that an artificial entity, in its own name but yet still only as a conduit for someone else's interests, has no GREATER Liberty interests than that of an individual. The courts must insist upon a focus on the Individual interest; expressly rejecting the wild and reckless notions of local and nation elected folks that assert that the Aggregate well being of the community is enhanced even if it means smashing the Liberty interests, the supposedly inalienable Liberty interests, of a few.

In the battle for the hearts and minds of the World, even for the (non-Muslim) citizens of Mexico, the allure of the US, in practice, has become bankrupt. While a decision to work here might be economically advantageous, folks are not racing to take our Bill of Rights and compel Mexico to apply them locally. We are left only with a repeat of the blind (and failed) idea of the building of a Great Roman Wall.

Bush's vision of Liberty is more like this: "In 1533, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, called a Sapa Inca, was killed on the orders of the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, marking the beginning of Spanish rule" Inca Empire.

But still, please, don't go stroll with the folks that merely have a different preferred set of beneficiaries from the continued exertion of the notions of the Aggregate benefit, notwithstanding the continued harm to Individual Liberty, where the PR focus is exclusively on the evilness of others. The present protesters offer only an invitation to join an alternative tribe, opportunistically.

If you carry a sign and walk 2 miles in 2 hours will that just make you "feel good" as if that is the sum total of your duty to protect Liberty -- Liberty at home?

All politics remains local. Think of your own personal role, your tribe affiliation, in the present system. Congress, on behalf of Sallie Mae, has seen fit to declare state statutes providing for the expiration of state court judgments null and void for federal officials and particularly federal bankruptcy court. The effect of this is to deny a state court with the authority to protect my Liberty interest to escape slavery by the federal folks. When Ted Kulongoski recently hosted a visit by an official from Sallie Mae at Mt Hood Community College I could only cringe at the prospect of many more thousands of folks being demanded, as a condition of obtaining an education, to waive inalienable Liberty interests. Today, at 45, I have one cry for Liberty -- that I be free from a debt in like manner to that of any other private borrower and with mutual rights to the Liberty interests of the lender so that I may have kids and not have the federal government, in perpetuity, smack me for someone else's benefit. Could I find a court in Oregon to recognize the wisdom of issuing an injunction applicable to all Oregon educational institutions that prohibits treatment of student borrowers more harshly than any person with a beneficial interest in an incorporated entity; even in federal court?

That is just one particular issue, an issue that pits me (and nearly All students) against nearly All professors. Yet it is an example of how Liberty, Individual Liberty, is sacrificed by the popular notion of Bi-Partisanship, where two wrongs make a right.

UPDATE: Comment

We have all become too accustomed to obtaining our own personal financial security, among our fellow residents, by way of casting stones that I do not see Liberty raining down, but someone's stone. So long as the stone I toss does not land on my head it is OK, I quess. We are already conditioned to point outward to find a villain, across national boundaries just as easily as we are within.

Is the root cause of the lack of sufficient ideological allure of the US-way-of-life, abroad, that something might actually be flawed at home?

We seem preoccupied by ducking rather than to halting the tossing-game. We could call it Bi-Partisanship, and expect all the prospect of clear thinking as if we called it Bi-Polar.

A three hour walk would be little more than a Three Hour Tour.

UPDATE: Here is some thinking -- "suppose that modern Israel had never been created, and that, after WWII, some other state for a stateless people had been born."