11-11-2011, 12:26 AM
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Way to take words out of context:
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Moore's motivation has always been to spread a message. I think he would continue to do what he does whether he got rich doing it or just eeked out an existence.
I don't know if he falls in the same category of people who get rich because they know how to create tax shelters, exploit tax code loop holes, or outsource production to China.
Just because he's rich doesn't automatically discredit his message.
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Peaceful, lawful protest -- if it is effective ? is innately disruptive of "business as usual."
That is why it is effective.
The Soviet Union was brought down by peaceful mass protest that blocked the streets and filled public squares.
Many white residents of Birmingham Alabama in the 1960s would have said it was very disruptive to have all these African Americans marching through Birmingham or protesting the murder of children in churches.
The addresses by Dr. King on the Mall were disruptive of the daily life of D.C. King himself marched without permits when permits were unlawfully applied.
It is disruptive to sit at a whites-only counter and refuse to move and be covered with soda and pelted with debris and dragged off by police.
When Bonus Marches -- thousands of unemployed and desperate former veterans who had been promised and denied their bonus checks in the Depression, which they needed to feed their families -- camped out for months on the Mall in D.C. and sat daily (when this was possible) on the steps of Congress, they won, eventually, because of the disruption.
Some of the power of real protest, which is peaceful and patient and civil but disruptive, comes from the emotional power of the human face-to-face: all those Congress people had to look those hungry men in the eyes on their way to legislate the decision about the bonus.
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