The Project for a New American Century

[Serenity]

Gene Sharp, a political scientist and founder of the Albert Einstein Institutions, a non-profit organization which studies and promotes the use of nonviolent action.

Sharp's best known book, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973), provides a pragmatic political analysis of nonviolent action as a metod for applying power in a conflict. He identifies 198 methods of action.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/198_methods.pdf

Passive Resistance, the refusal to follow a law while willingly accepting punishment for that refusal.

Civil Disobedience characterises the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence.

Henry David Thoreau pioneered the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay titled "Resistance to Civil Government", later retitled "Civil Disobedience". The driving idea behind the essay was that of self-reliance and how one is in morally good standing as long as they "get off another man's back". You don't have to physically fight the government but you must not support it or have it support you if you are against it. Thoreau's refusal to pay his taxes was an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War.

Hmm...I could spend the next four years trying to flesh this out!

[RC]

From: RC
To: Haggis

originally posted by Haggis: "Now that Bush is reelected and terrorism is handled, it's time to focus on other threats - such as ninjas!

NINJA FAQ

Q. Why an FAQ rather than a regular Know Thy Enemy™ format?
A. Because ninjas are extra troublesome and thus require the format of the revered FAQ!
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and also regarding:

Nuke the Moon


You mean like this?:

MOSCOW, Russia -- President Vladimir Putin says Russia's armed forces will soon have access to advanced nuclear missile systems unlike those held by other countries.

CNN

sounds like a promising strategy (scare the bastitches into submission) - too bad someones beating us to the punch.

Oh wait, we could out maneuver them still with our own new missiles ...starting to sound like cold war all over. The guy in Nuke the Moon actually uses the terms from the cold war era. Wow, makes my skin prickle.

<small>[ 11-17-2004, 10:02 AM: Message edited by: RC ]</small>

[piqaboo]

Sounds like Malcom X would be good at fighting terrorists. He understood the mindset. (Well doh.....).

Every administration makes changes in their cabinet. Everyone brings in people they know or think they would work well with. Every first lady rearranges at least some of the furniture in the White House. Every outgoing administration leaves some stuff behind.
I'm sad Powell is out and Rumsfeld is still in. Im excited that Rice is getting promoted - when I was born, the thought of a black female SofS would have been stretch material for shock radio (had such a thing existed - I cant say).

Walk softly and carry a big stick..... nobody never said nothin' about hiding the stick. That does nothing for deterrence. I think Nuke the Moon strategy would work against governments (Ohyeah, thats right, it did.....cold war...hiroshima....). Wouldnt against terrorists - they're happy to take out their own fellow citizens so it would just add fuel to their selfpity if we did it for them. And they are hard to concentrate in one location for successful reverse terrorizing.