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From: jhull@spp2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Emergency Response Network
Message-ID: <272@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 20:11:45 EST
Article-I.D.: spp2.272
Posted: Tue Nov 20 20:11:45 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Nov-84 07:29:08 EST
References: <633@ihopb.UUCP>
Reply-To: jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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Summary: 

In article <633@ihopb.UUCP> berman@ihopb.UUCP (Andy Berman) writes:
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>These ideas deserve a forthright reply, so here goes:
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>3) Non-violent Civil disobedience is a tactic with a proud history in
>    our own time. M. Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used it
>    successfully to reach out to the conscience of people when other
>    means had failed. They broke laws, they went to jail, not once but
>    hundreds of times. Do not fear non-violent civil disobedience when
>    used as a protest against such an odious crime as would be a direct
>    US intervention in Central America. Indeed, be happy that it is
>    civil, and it is non-violent!
>
>                    Andy Berman   ...ihnp4!ihlpg!berman
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An outstanding response.  The net at its best.

I absolutely disagree with the political position you are taking
(remember what happened to the people in North Vietnam, South Vietnam,
Laos, and Cambodia when the American government was forced to pull out
by non-violent (?) protest) but I APPLAUD the way you are going about
it.

Do remember, though, that both Ghandi and King were dealing with
domestic issues, not foreign policy.  I see significanct differences
between their cases and the current situation.

-- 
					Blessed Be,

 jhull@spp2.UUCP			Jeff Hull
 trwspp!spp2!jhull@trwrb.UUCP		13817 Yukon Ave.
					Hawthorne, CA 90250