01-04-2009, 10:11 AM
Glen, if you haven't read MLK's "A Letter from Birmingham Jail" again lately--well, let me point out that one man who takes direct personal action that is outside of the "approved" mechanisms of civic involvement--or even legality--may be very effective in creating change. In a historical context, it may well even be necessary to it. This is what I suggest. You may well note that most every progressive movement in US history whether suffrage, or civil rights, or labor rights, have only come from those who understood that the political structure were unwilling or incapable of dealing with the matter at hand, and, well, took the matter into their own hands and frankly forced change down the throat of the governing institutions.