Update: peacemakers vs brick throwers
From:
Grace Kelly (nicknamed Kelly)
Date:
2008 Feb 08 18:54 UTC
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Actually, violence hurt our causes dearly. If you have read this forum before
you will have noticed how writers like Mitch Berg harp on every trivial act of
violence to dis-credit the cause. If you read the discussions around that
violence, you would see that everyone was less likely to endorse a cause when
violence had been used. It was only through extra-ordinary non-violent
grassroots intense efforts that there was success in those causes at all.
So any violence for any cause would backfire here in St Paul. Violence is so
beneficial to the opposition, that historically the opposition has deliberately
planted people to cause violence.
That is why it is so important for peace organizations to distance themselves
from a unity pledge of respect diverse tacts and instead endorse a peace pledge
of non-violence in thought, word and deed.
Grace Kelly nicknamed Kelly
Peacemaker curmudgeon in Merriam Park
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