Worth noting is that throughout history, the non-violent are usually slaughtered and brushed aside. What they were able to achieve was in no small measure due to the system they were up against being ready and willing to change and just needing some focus to show it to be true.
I'm assuming you knew I was being sarcastic. I think that nonviolence can work, but only in a very civilized context. There has to be a sympathetic audience out there who will see their fellow humans getting beaten up and be able to identify with them to some degree. The ones who are actually doing the beating will only be encouraged by their victim's lack of resistance. Nonviolence definitely did not work for me when I was getting bullied in elementary school, but that was only because the place was run my sociopaths.
That sizeable numbers of people living in America think there are real live Nazis roaming around in large numbers that should be pre-emptively killed is astounding and scary. That they imagine they are morally obligated and excused for doing so and that their words and actions don't constitute "hate" is astounding.
They aren't Nazis in a political sense, but they present the same threat if they were to ever organize. For my part I have met plenty of people who hate jews and gays; and I live in a fairly liberal town! They don't dress like Nazis. They don't usually sport racist tattoos; but I can assure you that they are ubiquitous here. All you have to do is subtly imply that you might hate the same people they do and listen to them go off. I can only imagine how many such people exist in any major city. Probably tens of thousands.
If I were Jewish and someone expressed their desire to kill jews, I might decide that a preemptive strike is in order. Is that wrong? Maybe it is; but from a tactical perspective it makes sense to face your enemy at a time and place of your choosing, rather than waiting for them to make the first move.
Wow. Absolutely sickening. You are a repulsive individual.
Scratchme might be right. I said before that it was probably just a psycho, but who knows? All of us, at least once in our lives, have had the urge to stab the stuffing out of another person and we all believed at the time that we'd be justified in doing so. We just don't know yet what set this guy off. Maybe he was psychopathic, deluded or paranoid; but then again, maybe he had another motive that anyone could relate to.
