Based on Matt Taibbi's post (Thanks BDBlue!), I thought it would be good to bring up some history. You know, there was at one time this thing people would do, called "protest", and occasionally it had results (however meager and fleeting they might be). But results nonetheless:

I'm having a typical Friday the 13th, so forgive the DU link. I'm sure this doesn't surprise you.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department’s collection of information on demonstrations nationwide last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war.

The documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show, for instance, that military officials labeled as “potential terrorist activity” events like a “Stop the War Now” rally in Akron, Ohio, in March 2005.