Re: Bush to Blair: EU Citizens Have No Human Rights, Either

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:25:30AM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > In this regard I would hold forth Messrs. Christ, Gandhi and King as examples.
> > > A simple failure to cooperate, if widespread enough, is sufficient to bring down
> > > any government.  The rule of thumb is that a government requires 25-30% of the
> > > population's support to continue in power, though, with the advent of
> > > technology, that percentage is unfortunately quickly and steadily decreasing.
> > > Hence the need to act - or fail to act, as the case may be - before it is too
> > > late.
> > 
> > And the need for you to expand beyond kde-cafe, then. Seriously. Your
> > examples are not exactly known for staying in small circles. :)
> 
> Haha, I am not quite that ambitious / suicidal :-), I simply believe they used
> the right approaches (non-violence, non-cooperation and civil disobedience).

So your personal ambitions and safety outweigh the need to act?

Rob
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