If you are truly interested in non-violence then you will ask and expect it from everyone. The government, the community, the police, the national guard, the KKK, the protesters. But if you are only asking for non-violence from the protesters and are ok with violence on the part of the state then it isn’t non-violence you really want. It is obedience.
As we listen to Obama’s and others’ predictable platitudes about “staying peaceful” and how violence is not the answer and all that, please remember this: Violence is ALWAYS the answer when it is the State that is delivering it and it is ALWAYS denounced by the power structures when it is directed against them.… Continue Reading
Obama: “We need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make.” 100 years ago would he had said the same thing about the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, that we need to accept that it was the supreme court’s to make? Legalized injustice is still injustice and it must never be accepted.… Continue Reading
(Partial) Police Blotter for one week in August 2014 Aug. 6th: Beavercreek OH police shoot and kill John Crawford inside a Walmart. John was apparently looking and handling an air rifle that is sold by Walmart. Aug. 7th: A police officer shot and killed Jeremy Lake in Tulsa OK. Jeremy was dating the officer’s daughter…… Continue Reading
To all of us guys out there: This is the time for us to take a deep breath and listen. Keep breathing and keep listening. If we hear anger and frustration and rage, then let us listen to the anger, the frustration, the rage. There is a reason why those emotions are there. In at…… Continue Reading
The media have no problem naming the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels as the vile act of anti-semitism that it seems to be. I wish they would be just as willing to name the attack at UCSB as the vile act of misogyny that it clearly is. And to recognize the grounds where…… Continue Reading