On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ted Lemon <ted.le...@nominum.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Yoav Nir <y...@checkpoint.com> wrote: > > Yeah, and "act" is what Americans call statutes, and Selma is a city in > Alabama where there was some controversy about voting rights. You sure need > to know a lot of Americana to participate meaningfully in some of these > discussions. > > Sorry. That was directed largely at Melinda who is, to the best of my > understanding, an American. The point was that in fact the civil rights > movement started with individuals, not the government. > It would have been easier to note that the technological terror we have created has been one of the drivers behind the Arab Spring. Before that Communism was defeated through a bottom up movement: People just walked away. I seem to remember that there is a country in North America where the foundation myth is based on the claim of a bottom up revolt but I can't quite recall which one. Something to do with tea. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
