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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-11 01:10 AM
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88. So they should all behave like good little boys and girls and just
Edited on Thu Dec-01-11 01:11 AM by sabrina 1
do whatever they are told, regardless if what they are being told to do violates their rights?

What if Gandhi or MLK had done that? Would we ever have heard from them?

If Rosa Parks had just gone and sat in the back of the bus as she was told to do, would African Americans still be relegated to the backs of buses?

The anti-war movement did as you advise. The got their permits, they went where they were permitted, they left when they were told to leave, and no one who was not there, even knows there were huge rallies against the war, and we are now in even more wars, in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya, in Somalia, in Uganda, in Syria, (under cover for now) and planning on more. So those well-behaved people accomplished exactly nothing.

And that is why THIS time, because of the failure of the anti-war movement they are not going to be told to do anything that violates their Constitutional rights without resistance, and you can see the difference already. Everyone knows about them, NO ONE knows about the Anti War movement if they were not a part of it.

And no one knows that the original Tea Party held big rallies on Wall Street in 2009 before they were taken over by the far right. Because they were so well-behaved.

This movement, which began in Spain, learned from all those failures, and so far, they have been far more successful.

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