Of course the objective is political. So were Marin Luther King's, Mandela's and Ghandi's. What I hope to see now is the crew of the Rachel Corrie demanding their cargo in its entirety and ship back, as is surely their right. I would then like to see the ship sail back out into international waters and anchor if possible off the coast of Gaza, where the world would then come to see the ship and its cargo languishing, so close but yet so far from its sorely needed use. I would remain there until such time as the embargo is ended.

How true. In our time language has lost all meaning and reason relevance. Over reaction has become the norm. We think we live in a fantasy world of our own creation, in which our actions and words automatically have only the effects wished for.