Gary, It sure would be appreciated if you would substantiate some of your claims. You imply in an almost sweeping manner that the marchers are the ones who provoke and instigate riotous behavior.
Seems as if you're almost oblivious to the provocative actions of constabularies and misfits of opposing belief/opinion or just downright agitators who are there for no other reason than to provoke violence for violence sake. Just because agitators generate violence in what starts out and is intended to end as a peaceful protest is not sufficient reason to call it something else. It's not the protest that's violent, it's generally the response. As for declaring that peaceful protest is not effective gives the implication that only violent protest is. And words such as "iron fist inside silk glove" imply that persons such as King or marchers in general are the ones out to provoke - that the intent is there before the first shoe lace was tied that morning. This isn't a matter of "stomping on" anyone, much less anyone's "heroes." This is nonsense and propagandizing of the highest order. It's almost starting to come across as if your "politics" are of a firm proponent of installing designated protest areas, replete with 10' tall fences lined with razor wire, three miles away from where a protest might be effectlively conducted. Something tells me that as a police chief, Mr. Green, that you might all too readily forget the freedoms that are accorded to citizens in some countries, even to the point of helping to instigate and/or elevate problems that need neither occur nor get out of hand. Such a hand is what proves to be the iron hand - usually a hand found at a high vantage point, orchestrating pointed strikes/arrests. God help the bystander or pedestrian or someone not smoking a hand made instead of a tailor made on such a day, because that's how little it takes to get your skull caved in. Todd Swearingen Gary L. Green wrote: > Okay, let's take this in chunks. > > Yes, there is peaceful protest but how effective is it really? It's > not. It doesn't get much media coverage and gets ignored or forgotten > if it is reported. > > People Power in the PI? Again the threat of violence was there, there > were isolated incidents if I remember correctly. > > Where MLK went there were often riots, big or small.... okay, small > riot is an oxymoron but you get the idea. MLK spoke constantly of > non-violence but there were the agitators in the back that kept things > on edge. Did MLK secretly coordinate with them? Who knows. All I'm > saying here is without the iron fist inside the silk glove you won't > be taken seriously. > > Sorry if it appears I'm stomping on one of your heros but I see very > few people as saints be they good or bad. Politics are everywhere no > matter what your agenda be it for good or bad. Someone once said that > if you were not into politics, you will be done in by politics. > > > On 14 Apr 2006, at 10:20, Keith Addison wrote: > >>> Whenever MLK came to town you knew you either gave him what he >>> >>> wanted or you would have violence on your hands. >>> >>> >>> The man was not a saint but he was very good at what he did. That's >>> >>> why he had to be killed. >>> >> >> And so that proves your point, there's no such thing as peaceful >> >> protest, it's just a sham? >> >> >> Why not answer the rest of the question Gary? It went like this: >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/306 - Release Date: 4/9/2006 > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
