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How many innocent Americans of slave descendants were brutalized and murdered by 'white' Americans between the end of the Civil War and the MLK/LBJ led Civil Rights Act? I believe the number is between 5000 and 10,000 for those murdered, and at least as many brutalized physically. Those psychologically maimed may run into the millions. 12-19-2009

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Capone is correct. Consider the American Revolution and our Civil War, KInd words, negotiations were inadequate to the tasks. Had Gandhi called for mass violent protest by his millions of Hindu and Muslim followers, India would have overwhelmed the British and achieved independence years and years before the British surrender in the late 1940s. I wonder what would have happened in the USA in the 1940s, after WW2, had millions of American slave descendents decided to coordinate violent protests, if their peaceful demands for de facto rights as Americans hqad been denied. 12-19-2009

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Then again, Johnny Cash's comments, "I felt so sick I was afraid I was going to live." More seriously, what does the Buddha say to the abused, dying child who feels unloved? I know, he says, "I will always love you."

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Ergo, we enter the world shell-shocked! No wonder we live with PTSD, yearning for our original state of godliness -- love and peacefulness.

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Better to love than to have no woes.He who loves none is mired in misunderstanding of the temporal and the transcendent.

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Lord Acton is not quite right. Power does not corrupt, greed corrupts. Greed is the force and Power is the lever for action in the direction Greed demands. Typically, Greed x Power = Cruelty ( a corruption of our humaneness). Mahatma Gandhi had tremendous power, or rather spiritual force, to move millions of Hindus and Muslims against the British, but he had no greed, so that his equation became Justice x Power = Freedom, with compassion for the 'enemy' British. The assassination of Gandhi and partition of India loosed the lunatics on both sides. 'Oh what fools we mortals be.'

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

If the thoughts expressed in 'A Dream of Scipio' are to be believed, Cicero was not seeking posthumous glory on this plane of existence for his cogitations. Sanely, let's take the thoughts reputed to him for what they are worth to us now. Bill, Maumee -- The Patriot Act did not usurp our rights to protection under the Constitution. The PA and its specified limitations were put in place to protect our LIVES! No life, no rights! Read the Preamble to the Constitution and the 2nd paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Even the ACLU failed to convince anyone of authority that the PA was misapplied. Study Andrew McCarthy's essays on this point. Ben Franklin is reputed to have said "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." If you believe the jihadist threat is only a temporary hazard to our safety, and/or we have given up essential liberty to protect ourselves against the terrorists' vendetta of murder, spend some time at Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website for an education. If we are able to agree on the hierarchy of values/principles to be applied via necessary means, fine. If not, better we wrestle with each others' ideas and come together as best we can against the enemy who wants us enslaved or dead.

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Hadrian makes the essential points. Who disagrees that our country, within its means, should live and grow and assist others to do likewise, and that we should limit how our servants in government behave and serve, and that as adults we should shed unnecessary dependency?

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Liberty is the power and inclination to only act justly, to do what is necessary. To act otherwise is not liberty, it is tyranny or libertinism. What is the fundamental Law? It is the Platinum Rule: "Knowingly or unknowingly, do no harm. And if you must do harm, do as little as necessary." Philosophy, ethics, morality, religion, relationship behavior, all wrestle with what is harm, neccessity, and how to know and do what is right. Our understandings and misunderstandings are what makes us humane and inhumane. What makes us human is beyond reason and belief.

FamouslyUnknown, Hackensack NJ

Logic and reality are not synonymous. Cicero described the credo by which tyrants usurp and hold power as they strangle the populace.He expressed the truth. The proof is in the putridness of our present political administration. Call it the ill-logic, the sick-logic of the psychopathic sociopaths subverting our constitutional democacy.

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