[Peace-discuss] Violence Has No Place in a Democracy (but US Mideast war doesn't count)

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Those who make peaceful r[3voJ]ution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.  - JFK





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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 5:19 AM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Violence Has No Place in a Democracy (but US Mideast war doesn't count)


> Violence Has No Place in a Democracy
> By Kevin Gosztola
> 
> ...It is easy to characterize Loughner as unstable and irrational. It is less 
> easy to entirely dismiss Joseph Stack, who flew an airplane into an IRS building 
> in Texas in 2010.
> 
> Appearing on Democracy Now! in May of 2010, MIT professor Noam Chomsky explained:
> 
> "Stack decided then that he couldn't trust big business and would strike out on 
> his own, only to discover that he couldn't trust a government that cared nothing 
> about people like him, but only about the rich and privileged. And he couldn't 
> trust a legal system, which--in his words, in which "there are two 
> 'interpretations' for every law, one for the very rich and one for the rest of 
> us," a government that leaves us with "the joke we call the American medical 
> system, including the drug and insurance companies [that] are murdering tens of 
> thousands of people a year," with care rationed by wealth, not need, all in a 
> social order in which "a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable 
> atrocities...and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight 
> of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal 
> government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours."
> 
>>From 
> <http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Shooting-of-Congresswoman-by-Kevin-Gosztola-110109-379.html>.
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