Ninth inning in a no hit game?

Look, I don't want to jinx this by talking about it before it's finished, but I'm beginning to think we may have a really important lesson for Americans building in Burma. Yeah, I know, it's now called Myanmar. Each day, more and more monks and sympathizers seem to join the crowds marching quietly and peacefully in protest of the tin horned generals who run the country. In the past few days, the protests have grown by about 10,000 people each day, so we're now seeing crowds of 30,000 marching. I'm hoping this is going to be something like the "flower power" revolution in the Phillipines in 1967 (though hopefully with better long-term results). Can a few monks, armed only with the power of their piety, overturn a military dictatorship? I don't know, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

In any event, even if this movement fails in the end, it shows once again the enormous power of massive non-violent protests. We, in this country, seem to have forgotten the lessons of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. The people have the power to change things if they only try. We need more people to try. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.