And what will you do if they decide to use the tanks to break the strike, Bobert? Non-violence only works if you are up against an enemy with a conscience. If the revered Mahatma had gone up against, say, the Germany of the 1930's, his civil disobeidence movement would have died with its first demonstration. They'ed simply have killed them all and that would have been that. The Chinese Pro-Democracy movement was defused when the demonstrators agreed to disperse. But the leaders were arrested and China is still in the hands of the ruling class of the Communist party and the Peoples Liberation Army. Despite some movement toward economic liberalization it is likely to remain so. BTW, what would you set up in place of our current form of government? And GUEST, just what planet are you from anyway?