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In reply to the discussion: Forgive me if I roll my eyes at your precious outrage about torture. [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)We can't change the past, and I don't find fault with the logic of your decisions.
I especially don't fault your decisions as an individual. And this is all academic now, but what needed to be different, had to be different on a large scale - exercises of nonviolent power rather than just expression, and backed up with the credible threat of escalation to self-defense if the safety of the peaceful protests was not generally respected.
Basically an insurrection held in a state of suspension pending good behavior. A tyrant like Bush would have tested people's resolve, but if they'd proved they could deliver on their threats, he would have caved. He always caved to genuinely determined opposition. We forget what a coward and opportunistic predator he was. He and his kind could only exploit the cracks, never control the actual structures of our society and institutions.
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