Why or why not?
2007-12-02 09:32:48 · 8 answers · asked by porpoise rider 81 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
No.
Because if you succeed then you will continue to use violence to enforce your political opinions.
2007-12-02 09:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't agree. Violence is not appropriate as protest against the government. That's what voting is for. Violence can become self-perpetuating as has happened in some African countries like Liberia, the Congo and so on. The governments there have become ineffectual at best or succumbed to the dual plagues of corruption and anarchy.
2007-12-03 12:57:05 · answer #2 · answered by Nimaeve 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our founders have established for us the best system man has ever known for redress of every form of grievance.
Some, of late, assert and believe that outright sedition and treason are justifiable forms of "protest", but by their actions debase the legal foundations of their very argument.
Our system of government provides for "civil disobedience", the form of which Dr. King and many others espouse, but it does not tolerate, nor should it, the tyranny of minority or majority factions, or the mob as described and warned of in the Federalist Papers.
One only need look south to Cuba and Venezuela to witness what the threats and coercion by a minority within a society by a self inflated socialist and communist putsch can turn quickly into outright tyranny.
It took us from the time of the Stamp Act to 1776 to throw out the Brits...and look!!...they STILL keep trying to come back! hehe
2007-12-02 18:17:45 · answer #3 · answered by tumbler 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Would prefer Peace first. There is an option of using The Separation of Church and State and Religious Freedoms to make Greed a religion and separate it from state. With Greed removed and having to obey same laws as other religion the problem does not arise.
2007-12-02 18:38:00 · answer #4 · answered by darren m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never should it turn to acts of violence. nothing positive would come of it and there are other peace full ways of getting your point across. You also want the medias attention on your rally and its cause not the violent riots in down town D.C.
2007-12-02 17:43:28 · answer #5 · answered by Tea Party Patriot 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's like throwing matches at a fire. Governments understand violence, and often not much else.
2007-12-02 17:47:22 · answer #6 · answered by Bob H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is. Take a look at the racial divisions in Africa and the authorized genocide that is public policy in several nations there. I see no justification for peaceably allowing someone to kill me in the name of "Ethnic Cleansing" or Ethnic Purity". Ditto for anyone who is willing to kill me for not worshipping the same way he does.
2007-12-02 19:01:14 · answer #7 · answered by Tom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's necessary.
If there was a dictatorship like in Hitler or Stalin's rule I believe that would be the only way to stop it.
2007-12-02 17:41:53 · answer #8 · answered by christie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋