Bang, bang, you're dead

[Kelley]

At 12:17 AM 3/8/02 +0000, Cian O'Connor wrote:
>  --- Kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net> wrote:
> >
> > the larger point is that perhaps the antipathy
> > toward violence, in
> > principle, is misplaced.
>
>Depends what you mean by violence. I don't have a
>problem with Black Block type actions, or the sort of
>violence that typified the US in the early half of the
>C20th. That's just resistance to force.
>
>However if you're talking about either a violent
>revolution Cuban style - or destabilising the regime
>through Weatherman style violence, then I don't think
>anything useful can be built upon it. The first means
>a state far too dependant upon the good will of the
>army - and the dangers of the latter should be pretty self-evident.

that's what the founding fathers of the US said too! look where it got us!

kelley