Amen - Beware of people like Glen Beck who warn against ever using violence towards Tyranny - his selection of Ghandi’s so-called non-violent approach is ridiculous. Are we supposed to start having sit-ins and bus boycotts???(BTW, I read that Ghandi was a mean little man, and he beat his wife.)
Ghandi was a shmuck. His sage advice to the new state of Israel: passive resistance. The little pissant was lucky his opponent was the humanitarian British Empire.
Beck is right. America in 2010 is not America of 1776. Our forefathers had the spiritual/philosophical/moral foundation to be able to take the stand they took and come out on the other end of it a free people. Where is that foundation today? Tea parties? Not exactly. A lot of people are there just over money. A lot of folks are ignoring the spiritual altogether. As a whole, our nation is not made of the same stuff as the Revolutionaries of 76. This is not to say we don’t have a place and a way to be effective. Choosing violence is not the way. If you are attacked, certainly defend yourself. But violence in the hands of people with no real moral foundation will lead to anarchy and dictatorship. That is not what we want. Pray for a free election in 2010. And pray that the people aren’t snookered into making the wrong choices.
“..I read that Ghandi was a mean little man, and he beat his wife.” ~ Sioux-san
Yep!
Monday, September 03, 2007
On the Repressed Violence of the Nonviolent
http://tinyurl.com/2repl5
Excerpt:
“...Regarding Gandhi’s immoral pacifist-aggression, Richard Grenier notes that he wrote to Hitler and attempted to convert him to the ways of nonviolence. “’Dear Friend,’ the letter begins, and proceeds to a heartfelt appeal to the Fuhrer to embrace all mankind ‘irrespective of race, color, or creed.’” Gandhi naively thought that “Hitler’s heart would be melted by an appeal to forget race, color, and creed, and... was sure the feelings of the Japanese would be hurt if they sensed themselves unwanted.”
More here:
http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt
and here:
http://www.amazon.com/Gandhi-Nobody-Knows-Richard-Grenier/dp/0840758715
Use your own filter, he wouldn't have a forum if he didn't push Ghandi. Just the way it is.
Mr. Beck should learn that only “superior force wins”!