Once again, the American people will take to the streets of our nation's capital [edit: jeezbus, did i really just misspell "capital?" fuck, I've go alzheimer's for sure...) to protest the atrocity that is the Iraq war. Once again, there will be a 30-second spot on the television news programs to cover the event, except in the unlikely case that violence breaks out, in which case an orgy of coverage will ensue.
At least this time they're doing one thing right: Attendees are asked to bring pots, pans, and spoons. This is great! Any effective movement needs a drum corps leading the charge. This pot and pan addition is a tremendous step forward in the surge of resistance.
I don't care whether you believe in string theory or quantum mechanics or plain old vanilla relativity: it's all about energy, waves and shit like that. Sound is a wave. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Energy equals mass.
Still, mass movements are only as powerful as their mass plus their movement. You can have a great, inert mass, and that contains energy. But you have to apply energy to mass to get force. Once you've got force, you're halfway to work. Once you've got work, you're getting somewhere. Nobody said it was easy.
Back to the pots and pans: Their addition strikes me as significant. Imagine sitting in your dark lair, your undisclosed location, watching the coverage from CCTV (which, by the way, gives better resolution than you've ever seen in HDTV -- those cameras are incredible... if they can read your license plate from space, well...) and being overwhelmed with the sound of a half million people not merely marching, but drumming and perhaps even chanting to the beat. Man, I don't care how bald and evil you are, that takes the game to a whole. other. level. That rich, powerful high-fidelity thing is a double-edged sword.
It's going to be a wonderfully potent demonstration. If you're within a couple hundred miles of D.C., be there, and bring your drums!