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In reply to the discussion: I'm generally okay with the efforts of 'Anonymous' but this is anti-Democratic [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)The very limited article to which you link does not mention the dangers of this bill, of the twice-signed NDAA (indefinite detention of US citizens without trial or representation, google "NDAA section 1021" or "NDAA indefinite detention" , or PFC Manning having been held in torture conditions for 1,000 days for whistle-blowing on war crimes, or that the US is killing people in five or more countries via weaponized drones, countries with whom we are not at war, with 178 or more children dead from strikes in Yemen and Pakistan alone, much less the adult civilian casualities.
Things are horribly wrong in this country and none of it appeared on any election ballot so that the people could decide. Activists filled the streets demanding change and were beaten and arrested (7400+ Occupy members) and there has been zero change regarding the issue Occupy brings to light. Zero banksters arrested for nearly bringing this country into the second great depression. Why?
"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word 'tension.' I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth....
The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negros great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another mans freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/mlk-and-the-peace-process.html