BLOODY SUNDAY 1972- BRITISH PARATROOPERS SEIZING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS
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SOLDIERS ROUNDING UP PEACEFUL PROTESTERS - BLOODY SUNDAY 1972
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SOLDIERS BLOCKING EXITS WHILE DEMANDING PROTESTERS DISPERSE -TO WHERE ? -BLOODY SUNDAY 1972
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" AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND"
MAHATMA GHANDI LEADER OF THE NON-VIOLENT INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT OF INDIA IN THE STRUGGLE TO OUST THE BRITISH TYRANTS
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SHERIFF "BULL CONNOR" SETTING LOOSE DOGS TO ATTACK PEACEFUL CIVIL-RIGHTS PROTESTERS- BIRMINGHAM 1963
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REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. APPLIED GHANDI'S PHILOSOPHY OF NON-VIOLENCE TO THE CIVIL RIGHT'S MOVEMENT
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REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. IN CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
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DALI LAMA PREACHES COMPASSION & UNDERSTANDING & NON-VIOLENCE -LIVING IN EXILE AFTER CHINESE OVER-RAN TIBET
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MICHAEL COLLINS(1890-1922)
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MICHAEL COLLINS IN HOSPITAL AFTER BEING SHOT(1922)
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FUNERAL OF MICHAEL COLLINS (1890-1922) LEADER OF IRA MURDERED BY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN
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For some the only way they believe they can gain their freedom from any form of tyranny is to take up arms in a violent rebellion & revolution. This is the path which Michael Collins & the IRA & others chose . Though they believed they had no other choice as their backs were up against the wall as it were.
Mahatma Ghandi chose a different path to struggle against the ruthless racist British Occupying forces in India. Ghandi believed that only a non-violent form of resistance was the only ethical means which could be justified to fight against tyranny.
In America in the 1950's & 1960's THE Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. led millions in the cause for Civil Rights. Like Ghandi he & his supporters were often greeted with bullwhips, dogs, truncheons & bullets as those in authority were filled with fear & disbelief that anyone let alone someone of black or brown skin would dare question the status quo .
But which is the better way by the gun or passive resistance.
It becomes a difficult question to answer especially when those in power are willing to use all means available to them to crush any movement which threatens their position.
First in such a cause all available peaceable means must be used to their fullest. This would include such actions as writing editorials & taking advantage of the various media , print, radio, television & the Internet . To first voice one's concerns & to seek others of similar views then to organize meetings, public demonstrations, strikes & other forms of non-violent non-co-operation. Ghandi in the end forced the British to leave India for they could no longer maintain control over the populace or guarantee that Industry could still operate on a continuous day to day basis.
Ghandi was able to bring the whole India to a standstill by a simple speech over the radio or through pamphlets & word of mouth.
If after a long non-violent struggle if nothing is attained then we are faced with the issue of whether taking up arms is then justified as the Americans & IRA did against the British or as did the French People did in The French Revolution & the last of these show how tricky & dangerous the taking up of arms can be.
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"Pilgrimage to Nonviolence."
So anyway here's a poem to Michael Collins:
Michael Collins
BY Derek Warfield
Come listen all me true men to my simple rhyme
For it tells of a young man cut off in his prime
A soldier and a statesman who laid down the law, and,
To die by the roaside in lone Beal na Bla
When barely sixteen to England crossed o'er
For to work as a boy in a government store
But the Volunteers call he could not disobey
So he came back to Dublin to join in the fray
-Chorus-
At Easter nineteen sixteen when Pearse called them out
The men from the Dublin battalion roved out
And in the post office they nobley did show
How a handful of heros could outfight the foe.
To Stafford and jails transported they were
As prisonners of England they soon made a stir
Released before Christmas and home once again
He banded old comrades together to train
Dail Eireann assembled our rights to proclaim
Suppressed by the English you'd think it's a shame
How Ireland's best and bravest were harried and torn
From the Arms of their loved ones and children new born.
For years Mick eluded their soldiers and spies
For he was the master of clever disguise
With the Custom House blazing she found t'was no use
And soon Mother England had asked for a truce
Oh when will the young men a sad lesson spurn
That brother and brother they never should turn
Alas that a split in our ranks 'ere we saw
Mick Collins stretched lifeless in lone Beal na Bla
Oh long will old Ireland be seeking in vain
Ere we find a new leader to match the man slain
A true son of Grainne his name long will shine
O gallant Mick Collins cut off in his prime -
And here's a poem/song by Buffy Sainte Marie which expresses a less romanticized view of war & armed revolutions.
Universal Soldier
He’s 5 foot 2 and he’s 6 feet 4
He fights with missiles and with spears
He’s all of 31 and he’s only 17.
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years
He’s a catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jane
A Bhuddist, and a Baptist and Jew.
And he knows he shouldn’t kill
And he knows he always will kill
You’ll for me my friend and me for you
And He’s fighting for Canada.
He’s fighting for France.
He’s fighting for the USA.
And he’s fighting for the Russians.
And he’s fighting for Japan
And he thinks we’ll put an end to war this way.
And He’s fighting for democracy,
He’s fighting for the reds
He says it’s for the peace of all.
He’s the one, who must decide,
who’s to live and who’s to die.
And he never sees the writing on the wall.
But without him,
how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He’s the one who gives his body
as a weapon of the war.
And without him all this killing can’t go on
He’s the universal soldier
And he really is the blame
His orders comes from
far away no more.
They come from him.
And you and me.
And brothers can’t you see.
This is not the way we put an end to war
Anyway just some food for thought,
BYE FOR NOW,
GORD.
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