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From: agrawal@acf2.UUCP (Mukul Babu Agrawal)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The use of nonviolence.
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 10:48:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 10:48:00 1986
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>   I agree in the use of civil disobedience.  Two of my heroes happen to be
>Martin Luther King and Gahndi but I have a serious question that I do not know
>the answer. How do you fight a government that does not mind killing people?
>
>The British for the most part where civilised an where not going to wipe
>out the population or even try to.  The allowed constraints on themselves
>and thus had "weaknesses" that could be used against them.  The same in the US
>with the civil rights movement the violence got bad and some people did die but
>the government did not openly condone it.  The courts also did there best to 
>stop such violence.  
>
>Brian Mahoney

    I don't know what makes you say that the british were any more civilized
than the Germans or the Chinese, and neither am I aware of any 'constraints'
that they allowed on themselves.
    There have been a number of incidents which for obvious reasons have
never been known to the western world. The British government and all other
so called 'civilized' governments of the western world do not like there
misdeads to go out in public.
    And by the way, The British government certainly DID NOT mind
killing people.

				Mukul Agrawal
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