Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:21:23 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629001908.392E-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980628183355.A11012@mooseriver.com>
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Josef Grosch wrote: >On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 03:27:43PM +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: >> I feel that a rag tag militia that has heart and the support of the >> population is incredibly difficult to defeat. I have heard commanders of >> the South East Asian theater make this statement. >> >> I feel that an auto loading rifle is sufficient for the purpose of >> opposing tyranny. This is a personal opinion. >I'm not convinced. I think that people who have this vision of a rag tag >militia fighting against overwhelming odds have seen Red Dawn and John >Wayne movies too many times. Remember that Mohandas K. Gandhi and >Dr. Martin Luther King using only nonviolent non-cooperation had a major >impact on their respective political situation. Anyone who is my age or >older and can remember the evil that was Selma and Montgomery can tell you >what a powerful tool that nonviolent non-cooperation is. I base my opinion here on the US revolution, Viet Nam, and Afgahnistan. I do not base anything worthy of this discussion on Hollywood. >I must confess, however, that as a Jew who is lost several relatives during >the holocaust, I do have trouble squaring Dr. King's and Gandhi's methods >with the evil that was Nazis Germany. Fair. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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