From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 29 00:31:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23279 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23272 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:31:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (root@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id AAA39420; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:31:49 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id AAA06902; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:31:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:21:23 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Josef Grosch cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? In-Reply-To: <19980628183355.A11012@mooseriver.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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