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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 10:28 PM
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Non-violence is the only way. Peace shall overcome.


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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 10:30 PM
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1. an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. nt
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IsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 11:47 PM
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6. Yes it does. And it is hard to choose sides on a round planet.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 10:49 PM
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2. the Genesis of a problem has absolutely nothing to do with its Resolution. till they figure that out
there will be no peace..

the people keeping the hate flowing know that, and profit from it
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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 10:58 PM
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3. Tell that to the elitist corporofascist OILigarchy.
Us masses of little people wouldn't have a lot of trouble co-existing without elitist scum messing with us.
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Dyedinthewoolliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 11:29 PM
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4. How do we get
everyone to realize this can come into being if we choose it?
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Tighelander Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-03-09 11:38 PM
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5. Are there times when it doesn't work, like against Nazi types?
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 12:12 AM
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9. Nonviolence doesn't tend to work against governments that
are not beholden to anyone's opinion of them. Starting a nonviolent protest movement in Myanmar, in China, or in North Korea? You might as well just save your government the trouble and imprison/execute yourself at home.
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 12:06 AM
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7. “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.” A.J. Muste n/t
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 12:08 AM
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8. Only when your opponent (or a significant number of its necessary allies)
Edited on Sun Jan-04-09 12:10 AM by Occam Bandage
possess both a free media and free elections, and if you can make your plight somehow inescapable to that media. Otherwise, peaceful nonviolence only gets more Tiananmen squares than it does Gandhis.
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Eryemil Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-04-09 01:21 AM
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10. I'd rather carry a big gun but you go right ahead
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