What has this over-privileged punk accomplished, exactly? If he has an argument to make, why doesn't he make it to the voters instead of hanging up bullshit banners?

I really don't think that Ghandi, MLK, and Rosa Parks were just oldtime stunt players at the X-treme Politics Games. They actually stood for principles and somehow their actions communicated their principles. Climbing skyscrapers only communicates the principle of punks doing what they wanna to do because they feel like it and have the money and time to spend on it.

What has he done...?

Why didn't he just go on FOX News and say, "Illegal logging is bad?"

This poster nees to wake up and realize what kind of country we live in.

Let's use just one recent example of how "people power" doesn't mean !@#$ compared to coporate power: Wal-mart.

How many cities, yes entire cities, have banded together in desperate fights to stop Wal-mart from moving in and destorying local businesses and replacing real WAGE jobs with crappy low wage/no benefit McJob that put hundreds of people on State Assistance?

Bottom line? Wal-mart has the sheer god-like power to literally bulldoze over regular people. They have billions an dbillion sod dollars that they use to literally buy off entire city councils and local governments.

You're ridiculously naive idea of, "Why don't we just ask they not to rape us?" is cute, but unrealistic.

What about Enron? Surely if we asked nicely they wouldn't have destoryed million sof lives. People power, right?

What about the Savining & Loan scandal back in the 90's?

Global Crossing?

PG&E? Surely once PG&E was made aware that thousands of people were getting cancer, why, they immediatly changed their ways because -- gosh! -- they have to make the people happy, right?

Obviously NONE of these companies EVER willing responded to normal, traditional means. Simply pointing out to PG&E that they are killing people meant nothing to them. So people have to escalate their action to more untraditional means.

This activist chained himself to a bulldozer -- that physical act is literally the only way to stop the corporate machine.

Anyone who suggests the a letter writing campaign or "voting" or writing a letter to your congressman has any effect whatsoever is living in a fantasyland. Votes don't matter and those letters go straight into the trash can.

I can't think of a single instance in the last decade where regular people ever accomplaished a single goal just by voting, writing a letter or holding a news conference.

Actualy, Cindy Shehan did do just that -- but I'm sure the poster would dismiss THAT as just another pointless stunt.

You can light a candle against the darkness...

Or you can be a simpering little no-account dickhead complaining about how non-violent protest totally smacks of EFFORT, man.

I don't blame Sellers for taking the former path. Good on him.

I applaud Mr. Sellers and his colleagues for their brand of activism. Everyone protests in their own way. John is doing what he feels a calling to do. Rather than castigate him for it, I profess my admiration. He's got some serious cajones, no doubt about it.

After all, the clinic blockaders are some of the most dedicated, passionate protestors around, who have made tremendous sacrifices for their cause...or is the author only focused on protestors he _agrees_ with?

What does he stand for? You can't say, really. You can't get anything from his actions except that he likes to play X-treme Politics.

He doesn't like nukes, it seems. So what does he want to do about it? He wants to hang up a banner on the side of a building. The end result is absolutely nothing. The public isn't more informed or more empowered just because they saw a stupid banner on the Sears Tower saying down on nuclear power. Any real corporate masters must be laughing their asses off.

Again, think of Ghandi, MLK, and Rosa Parks. They weren't just protesters, they themselves were actively disenfranchised. In contrast, this punk is NOT disenfranchised. This punk is NOT unable to write a coherent article explaining his positions on nuclear power and what the public might do about it. The punk is NOT unable to support political candidates and put forth political proposals.

But he simply doesn't want to engage in democracy. He just wants to do protesting stunts. He even went to protester camp! His kind of X-treme 'protesting' is no different from going on adventure treks in the Himalayas. It's simply just another leisure pursuit of over privileged yuppies with more time and money than they know what to do with.

Really, the corporate masters might do very well to finance his stunt protests. If he's saying anything at all, he's saying that democracy is futile and meaningless, which is exactly the message that corporate masters everywhere could devoutly wish the public to believe.

Sellers is only following an important tradition that started with "Don't Tread on Me." I have no doubt he would have been among those dumping tea in Boston harbor.

When petitioning the government to redress grievances fails, when representative democracy is only represented by corporate entities, when "elections" produce little actual change, but alot of lip service, you have a tyrant to fight.

He understands his role better than his critics, or those who beneift from the status quo ever will. He represents the mainstream more than most realize.

Mr. or Ms. Anonymous was entirely too nice.

YOU are the punk, dude. YOU are the one incapable of putting your ass on the line to help protest the current situation. YOU are the one incapable of coherent action. Mr. Sellers has been arrested dozens of times, and I have news for you he has made a difference. I well remember the anti-nuke stunt on the Sears Tower, and at the time it heartened me a great deal, because in THOSE days we all had to live with nuclear annihilation.

Do us all a favor and go troll somewhere else.

"After all, the clinic blockaders are some of the most dedicated, passionate protestors around, who have made tremendous sacrifices for their cause...or is the author only focused on protestors he _agrees_ with?"

Fret not, my sweet -- they'll get their turn in the limelight when 'Patriots Act 2: Patriots For Theocratic Fascism' comes out.