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In reply to the discussion: Could the Massacres Here at Home be Karma for What we Have Done Overseas? [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)36. Civil Disobedience
The term and idea was launched by great American, Thoreau, from whom Gandhi, MLK and many others got their inspiration from. Thoreau's original form of civil disobedience was refusal to pay taxes to fund America's imperialistic wars.
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Could the Massacres Here at Home be Karma for What we Have Done Overseas? [View all]
Follow The Money
Jan 2013
OP
we look the other way while our government slaughters innocent children
Follow The Money
Jan 2013
#14
no peace until we implement strict bans on assault weapons, hand guns and ammunition.
bowens43
Jan 2013
#4
I just started paying attention after stolen election 2000, been fighting the wars B4 they started
Follow The Money
Jan 2013
#37
Who knows what form karma shall take regarding the near genocide of the First Nations.
Fire Walk With Me
Jan 2013
#17
And the Omaha chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans is responsible for tornadoes.
11 Bravo
Jan 2013
#44
Could be. You can't be the world's largest exporter of violent death, poverty, human suffering,
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#33