Disagreement & Government

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

These lyrics are from Bob Marley's Redemption Song, paraphrased they outline the question "How long will they kill our future while we stand aside and look?" The answer is NO MORE. No more can people stand back in the shadows and let governments run their lives. Citizens today should go, must go to any extent possible to express their disagreement with the government because it isn't the government's world; it's the people's world. Government has been an essential part to any civilization for as long as human kind has existed. People who disagree with the government have existed for just as long. Whether the government was so simple that the leader was the strongest in the tribe, or whether the government was so complex that it involved thousands of people to make one decision, it always was challenged and eventually changed. The means of change are quite diverse: protests, assassinations, strikes, destruction of property, boycotting, mass ma

ing groups, and anarchic actions are amongst the large list of means for governmental reform. All attempts at reform fall into two categories; violent and non-violent. No matter what the means of change one thing holds constant, without a fight, there will be no kind of revolution from the oppression.

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t, Gandhi made a 396 km march to the coast. This proved to be effective and as Gandhi would pass through new towns, the people would quit working their land as a form of protest with him. The British government put Gandhi in jail hoping to stop the protesting. Gandhi retaliated with a hunger strike and said he would "fast until death." Several days later, the government agreed to compromise and Gandhi broke his fast. He had proven that he could get the government to listen to him without violent actions. Gandhi hasn't been the only person to realize how beneficial non-violent demonstrations can be. The refusal to counter the violence of the repressive social system with more violence is a tactic that has also been used by other movements. The militant campaign for women's suffrage in Britain included a variety of non-violent tactics such as boycotts, non cooperation, limited property destruction, civil disobedience, mass marches and demonstrations, filling the jails, an!

bombing on April 19th 1994. Timothy McVeigh carried out this bombing which killed 167 people, including 19 children. McVeigh is presently in jail and had entered a "not guilty" plea. He said that he accepted responsibility for the bombing but did not believe that he has committed a crime. The people who have talked with McVeigh in his jail cell said he had been motivated by anger at the federal government's actions in the 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. In fact he chose April 19th to detonate the bomb because it commemorated the one-year anniversary of the eighty people who had died in this raid. Furthermore he was motivated, reporters said, by a more general hostility toward the government, a sentiment that seemed to take shape toward the end of his years in the Army and might have been fueled by his inability to get a well-paying job when he left the military at the end of 1991. "There's nothing in particular, one certain event, that happ!

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