"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. K

[BeFree]

No violence is my stance.

We need a peaceful revolution. Will we be able to start, much less, sustain such a thing? I wonder.

[JuniperLea]

1. Joan Baez... Leading by Example

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2009/08/joan-baez-leads-by-example/

snip...

Outside a Joan Baez concert a couple nights ago in Idaho Falls, four Vietnam veterans protested the show with signs reading: “JOAN BAEZ – SOLDIERS DON’T KILL BABIES, LIBERALS DO” and “JOAN BAEZ GAVE COMFORT & AID TO OUR ENEMY IN VIETNAM & ENCOURAGED THEM TO KILL AMERICANS!”

Rather than ignore the protest, which would have been the easiest thing to do, or get into a nasty argument with the men about their signs, Baez choose to engage them in an exemplary nonviolent fashion.




I'll be seeing her in San Diego in August... she's my hero.

[damntexdem]

2. Well, under current law with the new SCOTUS ruling, I guess JFK could be charged ...

with contributing to terrorism.

;-)

[Mimosa]

3. JFK was a deep thinker, more than most realise

I never quite got a grasp of the totality of his personality until I read JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James. W. Douglass.

http://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1570757550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277503741&sr=8-1

He had seen behind the curtain of power more than once. He knew what he lived for. He was our last 'free' President, who followed his own inner guidance.

Over the past 30 years there has been almost a campaign to portray him as a 'playboy' type. There's a political motive behind the denigration of the kennedy brothers.

[BeFree]

4. Yes he was

He started a revolution in this country. It was not sustained.

[stray cat]

5. Many tea partiers are trying for a peaceful revolution too

they just want a different outcome than most from DU. Thats democracy - different ideas and goals