Speaking of “fighting back”, Matt Taibbi has a great idea for war protesters :

Don?t write petitions or make appeals, don?t sing songs, don?t wait for someone up there to change their “minds.” Just fight it. And make it hurt.

Wall Street supports this war. How do you think it would react if all 30 percent of the country that opposes the war decided one day to dump all of its stock? A self-defeating gesture, to be sure, but we didn?t get to drink the British tea, either. CNN and FOX are making a killing waving a flag for the Pentagon. Why not start boycotting their advertisers one at a time until they pull their spots? Does Dell really want that “Dude, you?re getting a Dell” kid to be turned into a symbol of the war machine on college campuses?

Hell, forget about boycotting just Dell. Boycott everything. If even this minority of the population could go a month without over-consuming, it would give corporate America an aneurysm.Just one month of no new cars, no new hoop shoes, no Atlantic records, no Kellogg?s Fruit Harvest, no nothing but the bare minimum.

As great as the “stock dump” idea is, I’m sure it would (a) be too complicated to ever pull off, (b) just be used the next day by people who want to cash in after the inevitable artificial market crash, and (c) probably be illegal. it’s a shame too, because that would really get the attention of corporate America.