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Is it proper for those who are the docile victims of organized brutal violence to initiate
physical force of violence against their tyrannical oppressors, in order to dissolve, stop
and terminate the command-and-control authority of their principal and dominating
subjugators?
In other words, is there a right of the people to initiate revolutionary violence, for the
purpose of overthrowing an oppressive government, of deposing and removing a cruel
and undemocratic state?
According to Abraham Lincoln: "Whenever they [i.e., the people] shall grow weary of the
existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their
constitutional right to dismember or overthrow it." Do the powerless people have a right
to mobilize and coordinate themselves together in order to overthrow both injustice and
repression? Do the people have a right to initiate violent physical force against powerful
people, who would use the methodical military and efficient police forces of the organized
state to violently crush the opposition, the resistance, the rebellion?
According to John F. Kennedy: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will
make violent revolution inevitable." If the people find that a peaceful and democratic
revolution is both unachievable and hopeless, then do the people have a right to initiate
revolutionary violence as a means to secure and to realize both justice and liberty?
According to Edmund Burke: "A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from
impatience of suffering." Is there a right of the people to initiate rebellion against a
government that supports and sustains a system which the people accuse and condemn
as the cause of their suffering?
According to Richard H. Tawney: "Revolutions are apt to take their color from the regime
they overthrow." If the regime uses legal and systemic violence, then is it a surprise that
the people will initiate violence in an effort to overthrow the regime?
According to Daniel Webster: "Repression is the seed of revolution." In other words, the
violence that is used by the powerful against the powerless is the seed of the violence
that is used by the powerless against the powerful.
"Laws do not persuade because they threaten."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Posted by rallen2 on 2008-01-27 15:46:50 | Rating: | Views: 31
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