[Diogenes Of Pumpkintown]

Originally posted by G'kar: ummm I respect your beliefs, but All I have today I attribute to love and to the divine. Violence is one little aspect of human behavior. By the way, the civil rights movement was won by being non-violent. Today I have legislation that protects me from dicrimination thanks to people who chose non-violence. Ralph nader made our cars and other products safe, and didnt do anything violent. I could go on and on. There is always a choice, and I respect your right to believe in one possible course of action, but it ISNT the only one. Express your patriotic joy that we are possibly going to war all you want, but by questioning anyones loves of thier country because they can see other solutions, you only show how narrow-minded you really are. Yes thats harsh, but sometimes the truth is. And if you think I have distaste for the basic ideals of our goverment, you are WRONG! VERY VERY Wrong. I just dont hafta flout my love for life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness around for everyone to see, its safe and sound in my HEART where it belongs. One of those ideals, written into the basic foundation of law is the right to petition greivances against the goverment. I will and I do. Sure violence happens, has happened and will happen. Good has come from it in some circumstances like you pointed out, bad in more. Given a choice, I'll take non-violence. I know you have no respect for my beliefs, thats obvious, and I wont lose sleep over it, but I will stand up to the ignorant stereotype that because one is a consciencous objector thats means one is not really patriotic, or one doesnt really love their country because it is incorrect. The current situation is only two weeks old...how could we have tried all our options in such a short span of time? The investigation continues. Whatever the outcome, we are all in it together. [This message has been edited by G'kar (edited 09-26-2001).]

Excellent post, G'kar