>The ship has set sail...<

Mmmm... maybe...

Don't see much civil disobedience these days - not on a large scale anyway. Got arrested twice back in the 60s; once at Portland Down with the CND and once in London with Bertrand Russell's <b>Committee of 100</b> (Bow Street Magistrates Court is quite nice on the inside by the way :-) Also remember surrounding a nuclear bunker at Wargrave (I think it was Wargrave) and getting 'escorted' from the place by lots of 'friendly' policemen. Back then no one in the media believed there were such things as nuclear bunkers - now you can go visit them and even take the kids with you for a nice day underground. How things change.

Didn't do much good mind, I think Portland Down's still engaged in the manufacture of delightfully exotic chemical and bacterial compounds, and we still have the 'bomb', but those demonstrations did generate a lot of attention in the media even back then. Mind, things are a bit different now (I've probably already set off half a dozen security alarms just by <i>using</i> certain words in this post. If you don't hear from me again it probably means I've been shot in the head seven times and once where it hurts most - my centre of civil justice.