“We will not be silenced! Whether you’re a Christian, Muslim or Atheist you will get back your goddamn rights! We will have our rights, one way or another! We will never be silent!”-Egyptian revolutionary
Peaceful protest does not work. If you take certain U.S. university Political Science courses on revolutionary countries, or history of terrorism courses, you’ll learn of studies that show that peaceful protests always fail. Most of these U.S. university courses are aimed at students who want to be public administrators, or law enforcers. Why? Because the courses teach them how to keep “the people” down!
“I am six months pregnant! I’m ready to die with my child so Egypt would live!”-Egyptian Revolutionary
Was the Egyptian January 2011 Revolution peaceful? Hell no! Not only were the police, and pro-Mubarak thugs, violent, but protestors finally fought back. Egyptian protestors used rocks, sticks, trash can lids and even their own bodies, to fight against guns and bombs.
If you want proof just watch videos of the Battle for Qasr al-Nil Bridge, in which police hit protestors with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, even when they were praying, and then repeatedly rammed their armored vans into the crowds. Watch the violent reaction of the protestors, attacking the armored vans with their bare hands, lifeless bodies being carried away, finally taking the Bridge!
If that’s not enough, watch the many videos from Tahrir Square, in which protestors and police (backed up by pro-Mubarak thugs), spent days in a back and forth of violence!
I watched the January Revolution from day one, many days not getting any sleep because I did not want to miss anything (and I was in communication with some revolutionaries via the internet). Despite the myth that it was peaceful, it was not. The protestors definitely started out peaceful, and that’s just what those in power want.
Studies have shown that those in power will violently suppress even the most peaceful protests, because it works! If they get resistance, they will increase the violence they use on the protestors. However, the same studies show that the power elite have a short window of time to successfully put down a revolution. If protestors can withstand the violent crackdown, and even fight back, it will weaken the power elite. The longer the people can resist attempts by elites to put them down, the weaker the elites get!
As the elites grow weak that is not the time to back off and make concessions. Again, that’s what the elites want. The Egyptians pushed and pushed, and the elites (well, Mubarak anyway) finally fell.
The peaceful U.S. Civil Rights protests of the early 1960s is not what got the Civil Rights laws passed. It was the violent revolutions of black Americans before and after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, that forced the white Americans to give in!
Research the insurgencies (race riots) in Watts 1965, Jersey City 1964, Elizabeth 1964, New York/Harlem/Rochester 1964, Dixmoor/Chicago 1964, Philadelphia 1964, Cleveland 1966, Benton Harbor 1966 (put down by Mitt Romney’s father George Romney), Tampa 1967, Buffalo 1967, Newark 1967, Detroit 1967, Plainfield 1967, Cairo 1967, Washington DC 1968, Baltimore 1968 (caused by King Jr’s assassination), Chicago 1968 (caused by King Jr’s assassination), Kansas City 1968 (caused by King Jr’s assassination), Louisville 1968 (caused by King Jr’s assassination). It was those violent uprisings, and others into the early 1970s, which scared the crap out of the white power elite, and they caved and passed Civil Rights laws. Also, research the creation of the Black Panthers and MOVE.
And don’t get me started on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, he was no peace lover! He just knew how to manipulate. The Hindus presented themselves to the British as obedient sheep, to the point of doing nothing while the Red Coats beat, shot and stabbed them. Yet the Hindus were attacking Muslims, provoking Muslims to fight, and then the Hindus would tell the British ‘you see you can’t trust those violent Muslims, give us control of India’.
By the way look what happened to Gandhi’s peace loving wife; assassinated by her own body guards after she ordered the killing of Muslims and the destruction of a Sikh temple!
When I was taking video/film production classes at Allan Hancock College, in Santa Maria, California (back in the early 1990s), I attended a journalism seminar. At the seminar I listened to a lecture by a retired lobbyist. The guy spent a couple of decades lobbying elected officials at the state capitol in Sacramento. He said: “The only way you get action out of elected officials is with money or violence.”
He went on to explain that in his years at the state capitol the only time the politicians truly listened to “the people” was when they had money to offer, or were rioting in the street! He stressed that those people who peacefully demonstrated were essentially blown off by the elected officials.
Most elitist politicians rationalize that if an issue isn’t bad enough to get people causing violence in the street, then it must not be an issue at all!
“I would rather die with pride than live without it!”-slogan used by Egyptian Revolutionaries
The point is, peaceful protest is a myth created by the power elite to fool the masses. The only time real change is ever made in societies is through violence. By the way, that’s how the United States of America came into being!
More to follow…..