Ahh Keith nothing is ever quite that simple. Using the analogy that you made concerning the African American situation and maybe this becomes another thread on civil rights. America has not been occupied by a foriegn army since the war of independance. There have not been Army bases built in African American neighbourhoods to monitor people on a daily basis. African American people are/were not subjected to intimidation, house searches and internment without charge by armed forces. There has not to my knowledge been a shoot to kill policy targeting African Americans by police or army. African American civil rights marchers were not murdered in numbers by soldiers of a foriegn army. The murder of catholics by the British army was the catalyst for the armed struggle. You see Keith we tried Martin Luther King's approach and you know as well as any where that got us. With no one to protect us and the world seeming not to care the armed struggle was inevitable.