From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 00:10:11 MDT
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:27 pm, Michael M. Butler wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:30:48 -0400, Michael Wiik
> <mwiik@messagenet.com>
>
> wrote:
> > I would appreciate examples of an armed populace successfully
> > revolting against an oppressive government. Of course, one
> > example is right here in the USA. I know there are examples of a
> > government disarming the populace before instituting oppressive
> > measures, but this is not the same thing.
>
> Depends on what you mean. According to Mohandas Gandhi, armed
> revolt was a possibility he kept firmly in mind. That he wound up
> emphasizing nonviolence doesn't mean it wasn't also on the
> Viceroy's mind.
He said that non-violence was for the really strong and was the
superior method but that it was better for those less strong to take
up arms than to simply acquiesce to that which is wrong.
- samantha
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