aketon, if you don't take part, then you have accepted it as you have pointed out.
As Frank Rich has recently put it, "Freedom's just another word....." to paraphrase
Lightfoot. Today, it's mostly freedom from responsibility. The government is not the enemy. It's the people who decide how they will be governed that hold the key.

One of the ways to resist is not to participate in the negative aspects of governing such
as determining who will go to give up their lives for a useless war. We don't need to support any wars. This is certainly a game-changer in American foreign policy. Preemptive war is new to America as is the acceptance of torture and violation of privacy.

911 really changed nothing. It just solidified the negative aspects of power that were latent and provided an excuse for their intensification. It gave rise to the Bush Dictatorship that was unfortunately consensual since there was no outrage at his
selection by the Supreme Court of the US.

Voting for Obama was supposed to fix a lot of that but it hasn't. It's still business as usual.