The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
As a tactic, violence is absurd.
No one can compete with the government in this arena, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
What is more, one hopes that participants in nonviolent resistance will themselves be become human beings of a more admirable sort.
[Noam Chomsky, The Essential Chomsky, edited by Anthony Arnove, "On Resistance," page 68, first published in the New York Review of Books, 1967. This paperback Chomsky anthology is available from the Oak Bay Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, and makes for fascinating reading. It is especially topical for non-violent anti-2010 Vancouver - Whistler Olympics resistance activists.]
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