It ain't as much about pacifitism as much about logic and strategy... When the Black Panters decided that it was in their best interests to make it clear that the gun was going to be part of their image what they, in essence did, was invite agovernemtn that knows alot more about guns than they did to use excessive force against them... And this governemnt did just that...

I accept and embrace Dr. King's definiation of "militancy" as a behavior that is not based on "military" but of "demanding" that certain situations be corrected... That, to me, was what I felt we in the movement did well...

Fire bombing college buidings was a misguided strategy... To this day I'm not totally convinced that Hoover's boys weren't catalysts behind alot of the "violent" stuff... I know that "plants" were sent to Richmonmd and they were preachin' violence...

And I agree with GUEST,GUEST entirely on Hamas's actions yesterday... Okay, it took some explosives to pull it off but the act was non-violent and very much pro-human...

More Dr. King quotes later...

B~