On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> The people do not commit violence; the state and its arms (police,
> national guard, the military, etc) commit violence. The people defend
> themselves, as best they can and with the available tactics, against that
> violence.
>



Nonsense. Resistance movements can't use violence?


Violence is defined as "the intentional use of physical force or power
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_%28social_and_political%29>,
> threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group
> or community, [...]"
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence#cite_note-who.int-2
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