"I am getting pretty tired of the many cowards in here who spew their invectives while hiding behind a pseudonym." Why does Becky Johnson need the real names of people who are posting on Indymedia? A comment: Governments use violence to maintain a certain type of peace. If you desire a peaceful world, yet support governments when they "stand" for things that you like, even if using violence and the threat of violence is always necessary for them to stay in power, it would be better to describe the type of peace you are interested in so that others can more easily determine whether they are in agreement with you or not. For example, if you are interested in a social peace that is enforced by police employed by nation-states who have come to some agreement about limiting their wars with each other or where every war is a "humanitarian intervention" aimed at securing a similar social peace in other nation-states, you should say so. If peace is your ideal, and you think that state-sponsored peace is the answer, even if the government must know all of our real names and what we are up to when we use them, then I am vehemently opposed to your idea of peace. People use the word peace much like they use the word democracy--they are most definitely for it, and therefore they are righteous.