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I agree with that. I see that today. On the day that we bomb Iraq the lawns in our neighborhood get mowed on time, the mail delivered on time, Raymond comes on at seven, as usual.

Another person in the film says that Americans are taught that anybody committing violence not sanctioned by the government is either criminal or mentally ill. And so their many bombings of government buildings did not cause a general uprising among Americans, a revolution to actually physically topple Richard Nixon's government.

"Violence didn't work."

I guess I would take violence over doing nothing. I would take caring enough to sacrifice your own life to damage property to letting people be murdered with absolutely no response.
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Gandhi pointed out three possible responses to oppression and injustice. One he described as the coward's way: to accept the wrong or run away from it. The second option was to stand and fight by force of arms. Gandhi said this was better than acceptance or running away.

But the third way, he said, was best of all and required the most courage: to stand and fight solely by nonviolent means.

- Mark Shepard

http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/Myths.html
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The Weathermen were careful not to let their bombs injure anyone. There were three of their own killed once in a mishap in a townhouse in New York City while making a bomb - a bomb that was meant to kill many people.

After that they rethought and decided to only destroy buildings. They organized groups of resistance in several major cities around the country.

I thought there was someone killed in a bombing in Madison, Wisc. That is not mentioned in this film. Maybe that was not the Weathermen. I don't know.

In the film some of the Weathermen express regret, ambiguous feelings about what happened.

"When you feel you have right on your side, you can do some horrific things."

"Think of all the great killers ... they had a great project for the transformation of society, and decided that killing is okay toward that end."

"I find it hard to speak about it publicly, ... and to tease out what was right from what was wrong."

Well, I just think these are good things to know, to talk about.

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