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In cases where police are beating the shit out of protestors, what exactly is the alternative? Just sit there and take it?

• wheelerwj 7y ago
  any kind of arms race only leads to more and worsening violence.
  • DoctorOetker 7y ago
    so just give up on the right to protest and enjoy more of the following? https://www.oocities.org/scotpeterdow2/police.htm https://www.oocities.org/scotpeterdow2/police.htm I was cracking a joke in another comment on the apparent fetish this guy seemed to have, but after reading that page you can kind of understand where he was coming from. He does put in the effort to reference relevant journalistic material (like the police officer in training that was abused and succesfully sued), not exactly what you expect from some prolonged teenage angst doomsday prepper... so what is your advice? forget about your right to protest? give up democracy?
  • TulliusCicero 7y ago
    In the face of a repressive, undemocratic regime, is violent revolution not justified? Peaceful revolution would be better, to be sure, but that depends on the regime being willing to step aside without being violently forced to.
    • rolph 7y ago
      Ghandi et.al. did it according to what ive read in history texts, exactly how it happened only ghandi knows, but history says non violent passive resistance with great sacrifice [allowing gov to beat the crap out of them] until everyone realized it was out of hand.
• jarfil 7y ago
  The alternatives are the police tasing portestors, the police shooting portestors, the military bombing portestors... If you want to protest "police brutality" or an "oppressive regime", you might as well sit there and take it, as long as you make sure to get recorded by some journalists, and hope for public opinion to support you. At least you maybe won't die, which is better than the alternatives.