Second Servings

[H2O Man]

53. Absolutely!

I agree 100%. In fact, I was in the middle of responding, when the internet here went out, meaning I'd have to start all over again. Then the phone rang, and it was my daughter in Boston. She is getting ready to attend a rally nearby, to protest another fatal police shooting.

She had just finished reading Dr. King's "Why We Can't Wait," which her and I agree should be required reading. She said that she wished more people would listen to Rev. Barber. We discussed how the correct message is delivered through the years from people like Gandhi, Thoreau, and King. It must be updated to meet every generation's circumstances, and Rev. Barber is doing his best to deliver the word. But more importantly than one leader saying it, we are at a point where the masses of good people must embrace it.

I am opposed to aggressive, mindless violence. I'm not opposed to self-defense as a last resort. And I do see the benefit of a group accepting a violent attack in the manner that Gandhi and King led. Or willingly going to jail, as all three of them did.

Yet I note that King, while relaxing after one demonstration with his friends, joked that Eugene "Bull" Connor had been castrated by the movement, and reduced to a steer. Non-violence can be used to cut the opponent's balls off.

I think the J6 Committee -- the best congressional committee of my lifetime -- and the arrests and convictions of many of theviolent insurrectionists has been helpful in castrating Trump.