CounterRevolutionary wrote:
Civil disobedience is not part of the American tradition.
Yes, it is.
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
It is the behavior of spoiled brats.
That's a matter of perspective. Civil disobedience always looks unruly to those who stand on the side of established power. I'm sure the businessmen and investors of the British East India Company thought the Son's of Liberty were being spoiled brats when they dumped private property they didn't own into the Boston Harbor. Not only was that disobedient (there were laws against destroying other people's property) it was a case of vandalism that goes beyond civil disobedience. And yet, as Americans we celebrate that event and the Son's of Liberty as heroes.
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
Martin Luther King's non-violent resistance and marches were within our Bill of Rights to petition our government to redress our grievances.
MLK also advocated civil disobedience which led to many arrests during his marches. Civil disobedience *is* non-violent. Once you commit to violence or the destruction of property, you are no longer practicing civil disobedience or anything Alinsky recommends.
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
The Weathermen Underground were terrorists.
Some of the activists involved with the Weather Underground were vandals, yes. But the people you are calling spoiled brats today are not committing any acts of violence or vandalism.
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
And your "hero" Saul Alinsky was Al Capone's accountant and Hillary Clintons mentor. This reflects the character of a den of thieves, not civil rights advocates.
Alinsky was doing a his doctoral dissertation in the 1930s on the Al Capone mob, and decided to do it as “an inside job.” In any case, as I said before I am driven by ideas not associations; there is no reason why a man can't study the power structure of a mob from the inside AND have good ideas about political techniques. As for Hillary, there's nothing more "criminal" about her than any other politician. You're just a sucker for BS.
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
Let's look at all the gold siphoned out of Fort Knox by your Progressive disobedients that funded the Bolshevik Revolution and the Rise of the 3rd Reich. Nothing but a club of state sanctioned pickpockets.
Yeah, I'm not going to sit here and argue with your bounty of baseless conspiracy theories.