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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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Purest - The violence in Arab Spring and nearly every effective revolution was nearly always started by the police. Self-defense is not violence.
Abacab - Whatever Gene Sharp is does not make his words any more or less true. Considering the source is one thing, discounting a message only because of the source is ignorance. What I do know is that there have been many successful revolutions in the recent past from the 1988 student uprising in Burma, to the Otpor! takeout of Milosevic, to the Orange revolution in Ukraine, to Arab Spring, which have been guided by leaders who have had a thorough understanding of the list of 198 specific, effective, non-violent actions Gene Sharp details in From Dictatorship to Democracy. Those people are actually interviewed in How To Start A Revolution, and give at least partial credit to the success of their revolutions to Gene Sharp.
He says that if we give them the option of violence, they will choose violence. And that that is the very arena in which they have the most power over us. They have the big guns. They have the big bombs. They have the surveillance equipment and the files on all of us. What we have is numbers and willpower. If we couple numbers and willpower with a steadfast belief that violence will not solve our problems, then we need alternative actions to force the change that is needed. Gene Sharp gives us those options.
Maybe he hasn't ever held a gun, but people who have held guns give him credit, so maybe trust fund kids who cant think beyond their scene and their nose need to shut the fuck up about topics which are obviously way the fuck over their head (which is buried in the sand).
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You just mad cause I own more guns than you cause I live in Indiana. When push comes to shove I have enough firepower to run an insurgency in my backyard. But besides that point...
My biggest complaint to you and your crew of portblockers is if I walked into that protest with my SAR-1 with the 80 round drum, you jewfags would sell me out to Homeland Security faster than Judas sold out Jesus. You people would viciously try to disarm me before I escalate your poor protest into full on combative warfare followed by martial law.
You people have sold out every moltov thrower, every vandal, every NRA supporter that rolls through your ranks attempting to escalate, and I find that deplorable. You protest the system but result to complaining to the system when the anarchists begin to get out of hand, you arrest us and ban us from your protests because we choose bombs over words, bullets over signs.
and frankly that is bullshit.
I am not one to go shooting places up on par, but if a police man unjustly attacked me or the state moved in on me in an authoritarian anti-civil fashion, I would be the first to brandish an automatic and begin chucking armor-piercers at anyone and everyone in my path.