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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:47:37 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:
> Well, the "we the people" who wrote our constitution were pretty well
> armed, and were in the process of kicking the pants of the oppressors.
> MLK did nothing in comparison to the founding fathers. MLK was a very
> good man, but what he did only worked because of the foundation laid 200
> years ago.
A cynic might even claim that the only reason the civil rights movement
progressed was that a white minister was killed...
See:
http://www.uua.org/news/reeb/nyt030800.html
Frank
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| (...) However, fighter jets and ICBMs don't "hold" territory. Just look at what's going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine for examples of what an "armed" citizenry might be able to do to resist oppressors. (...) Right now the situation is not (...) (21 years ago, 17-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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