Thank you, Raedwulf. Exactly as you say. Neither because of power, race, or any other outer feature of identity, but simply because of what they do with their power.

And I don't hate them...I simply object to their political behaviour and disapprove of it. I've come to the conclusion that it's not healthful or wise to hate people, and when I feel the tendency rising in me to do so I try to get over it as quickly as possible by remembering that they are no doubt doing what they think is best at the time. I don't hate George Bush, for instance, I just disagree with most of his policies strenuously. :-)

I decided as an adult, after an early family life in which I was afraid to speak out, to be forthright and speak out whenever I see injustice. That usually results in offending somebody, because there are probably no people on this Earth who have not practiced injustice upon someone else at some time, and tried to pretend otherwise. A major crime against one group is quite often followed by a major crime being committed BY them on someone else. It's emotional reaction-counter-reaction. Man kicks dog...dog bites neighbour...neighbour has road rage, makes cop angry...cop gets drunk and yells at his wife...wife bitches at her kids...etc...and the hate goes round and round. It's a cycle that can only be broken at some point by forgiveness, in my opinion. And forgiveness can only be accomplished by admitting to one's own dark side and surrendering a bit of prideful ego defence in the process. It takes far more actual courage than vengeance does...and it achieves far more useful result. Vengeance achieves no useful result whatsoever, but it's so appealing to the adolescent mind that it has fostered an entire ongoing movie industry.

The World can't really afford to be run by the adolescent mind much longer.

That last Hollywood movie "Million Dollar Baby" was surprisingly good and realistic for a change...because it did not attempt to emotionally resolve a tragedy with the usual trite and predictably hyped-up "vengeance" solution (in which the crippled female boxer would have miraculously gotten back on her feet somehow after months in the hospital, gruelingly re-trained herself into topform against all odds, and then have massacred the woman who had treacherously crippled her in the ring, in a bone-crunching and bloody finale for the world championship, suitable to fully satisfying everyone's bloodlust and desire to get even...)

Nope. They didn't do that. It was surprising. I know it certainly surprised the audience in the showing that I saw. They don't write stories like that on TV, do they?