originalpckelly
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Sat Jan-03-09 10:28 PM
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Non-violence is the only way. Peace shall overcome. |
Mari333
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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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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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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 |
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there will be no peace..
the people keeping the hate flowing know that, and profit from it
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Sat Jan-03-09 10:58 PM
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3. Tell that to the elitist corporofascist OILigarchy. |
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Us masses of little people wouldn't have a lot of trouble co-existing without elitist scum messing with us.
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Sat Jan-03-09 11:29 PM
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everyone to realize this can come into being if we choose it?
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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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Sun Jan-04-09 12:12 AM
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9. Nonviolence doesn't tend to work against governments that |
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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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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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Sun Jan-04-09 12:08 AM
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8. Only when your opponent (or a significant number of its necessary allies) |
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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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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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