"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Spike posted a copy of Charlton Heston's Speech to the Harvard
> Law School Forum and Pat posted some references to the "Heston
> Speech" thread from February that I have not read.
>
> I'll simply point out that there appears to be a contradiction
> in Heston's position. On the one hand he seems to be celebrating
> disobedience of Dr. King and the Founding Fathers but yet on the
> other hand he seems to be critical of corporate interests promoting
> the "disobedience" of individuals like "Ice-T". There is a hint
> that one must disobey "Peacably, yes. Respectfully, of course
> Nonviolently, absolutely." yet in the final analysis Heston seems
> clearly in favor of violence where justified to revolt against
> the oppressors.
There is no contradiction if you accept that promoting the shooting of
cops by drug gangs is not a justified form of revolt, and that
prosecution of drug gangs and other organized criminal syndicates does
not equal oppression of a whole ethnic group. Heston doesn't buy the
legalization of drugs, so therefore his statements (at least in respect
to his personal values) are consistent.
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