Re: [POLIT] Re: Protect your own

From: delozier@wt.net
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 09:32:42 CEST


S T O P T H I S !!!!!

NO One is convincing the other!

This is not a political forum....

ALL of this has NOTHING to do with muLinux....

My friends, before we damage our relationships...PLEASE let us get back
our focus : muLinux

>In a message dated 9/14/01 5:23:20 AM Central Daylight Time, lammert@gmx.de

>writes:
>
><< That is exactly the wrong way. There should be pacifistic and fearful

> people in all armys. There wouldn't be war anymore... >>
>
>I've watched this conversation disintegrate, biting my tongue, but this
is
>too silly.
>
>"The people of a village near Bettia told me that they had run away whilst

>the police were looting their houses and molesting their womenfolk. When

>they said that they had run away because I had told them to be nonviolent,
I
>hung my head in shame. I assured them that such was not the meaning of
my
>nonviolence. I expected them to intercept the mightiest power that might
be
>in the act of harming those who were under their protection, and draw
without
>hesitation all harm upon their own heads even to the point of death, but

>never to run away from the storm centre. It was manly enough to defend
one's
>property, honour, or religion at the point of the sword. It was manlier
and
>nobler to defend them without seeking to injure the wrongdoer. But it
was
>unmanly, unnatural, and dishonourable to forsake the post of duty, and,
in
>order to save one's skin, to leave property, honour, or religion to the
mercy
>of the wrong-doer. I could see my way of delivering .ahi\_.ms\^~a to
those
>who knew how to die, not to those who were afraid of death."
>
>Gandhiji in Indian Villages, published in 1927.
>
>One of those guntot'n muLinux users. I try hard not to be a bully, but
mess
>with my chicks, my nest, or my herring, and you'll find that there is
much
>more to Tux than fluff.
>
>htom
>
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