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Thus Spake cmort@nwohio.com (Chris Morton):


%>%The question isn't whether I'm offering to start one, it's whether or
%>%not such a massacre is just cause for starting one.
%>
%>OK, no.  I don't believe one (or even several) incidents of troops getting out
%>of hand justifies armed revolt.  And if you look at the writings of the time
%>(Thomas Paine, especially) the Boston Massacre is almost never mentioned-the
%>causes for rebellion can be more accurately traced to a long-term British
policy
%>of denying the colonists the inherent human right to self-determination.  
%
%Do you believe ANY degree of violence by government against citizens
%justifies revolt?

Yes.  However I have to be convinced it's a long-term policy (In other words,
cite some instances from before Clinton's election and evidence it will continue
after the next presidential election).  I also have to be convinced that there
is no other possibility of peaceful resolution.  Civil War is one of the worst
fates to befall a great nation.

%>%"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
%>%of justice is no virtue." 
%>
%>I can't recall who said that.  Was it Barry "Nuke North Vietnam" Goldwater or
%>the cross-dressing FBI chief who though Martin Luther King was communist?
%
%Speaking of which, what level of abuse committed by J. Edgar Hoover do
%you think would have been appropriate?

I think that he went overboard in many ways.  However Hoover on his worst, most
paranoid day was still no excuse to revolt.


John M. Atkinson
jatkinso@gmu.edu
"A nation which despises its soldiers will all too soon 
have a despicable army
                 --Jerry Pournelle