Posted on 12/30/2014 3:19:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Tom H. Hastings teaches in the Portland State University Conflict Resolution MA/MS program. He directs PeaceVoice, a program of the Oregon Peace Institute. His books include: Hundred thoughts on nonviolence (in press); The lessons of nonviolence (2006); Power (2005), Nonviolent response to terrorism (2004); Meek t weak: Nonviolent power and people of color (2002); and Ecology of war and peace: Counting costs of conflict (2000). With Seattle writer Geov Parrish, he wrote the 2002 War Resisters League calendar datebook, 52 true stories of nonviolent success.
He is a nonviolent peace, justice and environmental activist, a Plowshares nonviolent veteran of three prisons and has done nonviolence trainings for more than 30 years across the US. He is a past chair and current board member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Peace Institute. He is on the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association and on the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association Foundation. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He lives in the Portland Catholic Worker community Whitefeather House, and hikes and bikes for fun (transportain andhe owns no automobile).
hastings@pdx.edu
What a complete moron, funded by our tax dollars.
BULLCRAP.
:D
Sorry excuse the language.
Guns are a big part of what freedom we have left. They built this country, and, brought us our freedom in the first place.
Hastings needs his butt kicked. :)
Seriously, can this idiot think of ONE reason that we would want to give the government a monopoly on firepower?
It is rare to find somebody who is wrong about everything, at every level.
But when you do, that person is likely to be a Peace Voice Director teaching Conflict Resolution Studies at a university.
It would make for a nice piece of fiction: a book about a post-2A repeal United States where the government battles its armed citizenry, prying gun after gun from cold hands, until there are no longer any armed authorities left prying guns.
History is rife with evidence that when guns are removed from the hands of private citizens death by government is sure to follow.
nice pony tail dude.
I know all I need to know about him with his braided pony tail.
Come and get ‘em Tommie boy.
I have enough scrap in my scrap pile, and enough tools to outfit a small medieval army, if I have enough time, or a couple of helpers.
/johnny
It doesn't get in the way of the action on my semi-autos. My beard sometimes gets caught in the action.
/johnny
What a truly creepy individual.
Pre-pubescent boys in Pakistan build AK-47’s by hand.
In mine too.
You’re not some pacific Northwest hippy a$$hole like he is, either. In this instance, it is a dead giveaway of what he is.
He's also zombie proof as all his brains have been replaced by noodles.
Replace “Second” with “First” there professor...countless feelings are hurt daily by spoken words. What’s the matter, you don’t care about people’s feelings? What kind of awful human are you...
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