Forum Post: I don't think being just "Non-Violent" would have gotten MLK or Gandhi very far.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 31, 2011, 7:28 p.m. EST by unarmed
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The Boycotts, Sit-ins, Mass Marches, Petitioning Politicians, Stating the Problem and Getting Overwhelming public support, had a lot more to do with it.
When non-violence becomes synonymous with non-sacrifice for non-change, the pacifists have been defeated by the cowards, and those who favor violence take over.
Just like "DoNotLoot", "GaiaGirl", "Metoo", "MattLHolck", "Tednugent", "OccupyEverything", "brianobx", "Hilscher", "HilscherBanned", "blkflg", "gr57", "Badhornet', "Earnit", "thebeach", "Jonas", "americanfreedom69", "uslynx81", "therealdeal2011", "1percenter4life", "superspiff", "suwata", "sudoname", "Momcalled", "justfactsallowed", "AntiCorp", "MikeyD", "MovingTwoChina", and "DukeNukem299", "dukeNukem347", "Moving8China", "MovingToReelection", "Rob", "angelofmercy", "AllThe Way", "CoffeeKick", "hahaha", "MisguidedYouth", , "RicoSuave", "Uriah" , "RichardGates", "The1Capitalist","brianingrandy", "owsrulez", "weeicemon", "MisguidedYouth2", "ArrestAllCEOS", "Joeschmoe1000", "hillary", "SSJHilscher" was outed as a TROLL ages ago...
To understand WHAT MAKES A TROLL TICK - AND have a chuckle while you're at it - go to:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/how-trolls-think-trollosophy-exposed/
You'll notice that despite TIOUAISE's spamming all day every day of the same walls of text, the commissars will never ban him for breaking the forum rules. They selectively enforce the rules. The rules only apply to those they disagree with.
It was non violent passive resistance. The Indians did fight but nothing worked like the civil disobedience movement. the violence damaged the movement.
No, actually Gandhi's people were willing to be clubbed and shot by British soldiers WITHOUT BITCHING ABOUT IT or fighting back, which is something that escapes the OWS people.
Maybe because they were flanked by other violent groups, the non-violent majority seemed more sane to the power-elite, leading the power-elite to give ground to the non-violent movements? Those 2nd Amendment folks who showed up in Phoenix might be helping out...
Actually the Indians fought back, a lot.
Oh yeah, they did. Well, not so much at first, but when they got going, they went with it.
Civil Disobedience
http://occupywallst.org/forum/forum-topics/#comment-172497
not in today's world- that's why we use the writings of GENE SHARP http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations9173.html
his book from dictatorship to democracy just kick the asses of dictators in the middle east & lybia
now his books are being used bt OWS
Non-violence is not the path of the cowards and the weak, it is the path of the strong and the brave.
And also of the very SMART.... Dr. King and his closest advisors used to spend days planning, strategizing.... and THEN they prayed. :)