From: Gerry Armstrong <gerry
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Vaclav Havel on Charter 77 (fighting
dictators)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:34:25 +0100
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:37:31 -0000, "Jeff Jacobsen" <cultxpt
@ev1.net>
wrote:
>
>buzz88827@hotmail.com (Zip In The Wire) wrote:
>>"Jeff Jacobsen" <cultxpt@ev1.net> wrote in message
news:<vms59p93qsjd8f@corp.supernews.com>...
>>>
http://plato.acadiau.ca/COURSES/POLS/Grieve/3593/Czech/Charter77.html
>has
>>> the entire Charter 77 declaration from 1977 in Czechoslovakia.
Havel
>went
>>> from jailed dissident to president of the country using
nonviolent
methods.
>>> Here's a bit that I think the ARSCC should use...
>>>
>>> "Charter 77 is a oose, informal and open association of
people
of various
>>> shades of opinions, faiths and professions united by the will to
strive
>and
>>> individually and collectively for the respecting of civil and
human
rights
>>> in our own country and throught the world... Charter 77 is not an
organization;
>>> it has no rules, permanent bodies or formal membership. It
embraces
everyone
>>> who agrees with its ideas and participates in its work."
>>> "It does not aim, then, to set out its own platform of
political
or social
>>> reform or chage, but to conduct a constructive dialogue...
particularly
>by
>>> drawing attention to individual cases where human and civil
rights
are
>violated,
>>> to document such grievances and suggest remedies, to make
proposals
of
>a
>>> more general character calculated to reinforce such rights and
machinery
>>> for protecting them, to act as intermediary in situations of
conflict
>which
>>> may lead to violations of rights, and so forth."
>>>
>>> I would recommend that ARSCC adopt the above from Charter 77.
>>>
>>>
>>> www.lisamcpherson.org
>>
>>A better book is "The 48 Laws of Power".
>>
>>For every martyr that succeeded using non-violent methods there were
>>thousands or millions of pacifists that were exterminated and never
>>heard from again.
>>
>>Non-violent methods work only in the presence of a lot of media
>>attention. If you don't have LOTS of media attention, don't try it,
>>you'll be massacred.
>
>
>Not true at all. You just have to do it right. Consider India, the
Philippines,
>Serbia, and many other examples where it worked successfully. There is a
>video tape series called "A Force More Powerful" (and an
accompanying
book
>by the same name) that shows many examples where nonviolence worked.
> Now that's not to say that it's easy or a cakewalk. Just look at the
>U.S. civil rights movement where people were killed, attacked by the
police,
>etc. But consider the alternative, such as is happening in Iraq now.
Gandhi
>Tech works when done right. Fortunately, we are learning more and more how
>to do it right.
>
>www.lisamcpherson.org
Consider this though. In every one of these national wars for freedom
or for human rights, nonviolence was always contrasted as an option
with its rougher brother, violence, and violence was also always
present.
Gandhi conducted his war using nonviolence as his weapon of choice
while others on the same battlefield conducted their war with violence
and the threat of violence. Although it is widely accepted that
non-violence was the winning weapon in the war for India's
independence, it is not known whether the British would have allowed
non-violence to triumph if with the defeat of non-violence the British
would be facing only violence and more violence.
Perhaps you might explore the idea that the target or venue for the
protests against Scientology is wrong. Remember that Gandhi's
principal leverage was non-cooperation. Scientology doesn't care a fig
if you cooperate with it or not, because Scientology is issuing no
orders and has no expectations with which you must cooperate. But the
U.S. government cares if you cooperate with it or not, and has
expectations with which you must cooperate. Are you prepared to not
cooperate with the government in order to effectuate changes in the
government's favoritism toward Scientology?
Scientology depends on government permission to get away with its
abuses. The real target then very likely is government. Would you be
willing to not cooperate with government as Gandhi non-cooperated with
government to bring government to accept, and even force, the needed
change on Scientology?
The needed change, by the way, in my opinion, is the denunciation and
elimination of the "Suppressive Person doctrine." Because
Scientology
is organized around the "Suppressive Person doctrine," it is both a
hate group and a criminal conspiracy. Scientology has made all its
gains and acquired its wealth by the Suppressive Person doctrine, and
this doctrine is also it vulnerability. It is an inarguably evil and
criminal doctrine.
SPs are in a position that by organizing an inspired form of
non-cooperation they could bring governments everywhere to address the
Suppressive Person doctrine, and to force its elimination in
Scientology. Gandhi called for, you may recall, a finite, attainable
goal; and the eradication of the Suppressive Person doctrine is such a
finite, attainable goal.
SPs are actually in a position that justifies violence toward
Scientology and Scientologists, since it is crystal clear that by
their Suppressive Person doctrine Scientology and Scientologists
intend violence toward us, indeed our quiet sorrowless disposal. I am
not recommending violence, because I am a firm believer in and
practitioner of Gandhi Tech, but I am saying that it is completely
justified. It is justified because governments have done nothing to
denounce and eliminate the Suppressive Person doctrine that threatens
our lives and our Class.
When there have been opportunities for non-cooperation, have SPs
non-cooperated? Did anyone actually challenge the court-ordered
picketing lines by not cooperating with that court order? If 5 million
American SPs refused to pay their taxes until government acted to
protect them by denouncing the Suppressive Person doctrine and by
eliminating any support for Scientology, would that be effective
non-cooperation? Would it get that LOTS of media attention
Scientology's victimization of SPs deserves?
How about the boycotting of councils, courts and schools? Gandhi did
it. http://www.mkgandhi.org/biography/nnviolnt.htm
From the same page:
[Quote]
That a political programme had no chance of success without an
adequate organization to implement it, Gandhi had realized at the age
of twenty-five, when he had founded the Natal Indian Congress to fight
for the rights of Indians in Natal. The Indian National Congress, had,
therefore, to be refashioned, if it was to prove an efficient
instrument of non-violent non-cooperation. Gandhi saw that what the
country needed was not a forum for an annual pageant and feast of
oratory, but a militant organization in touch with the masses.
[End Quote]
Right now there is no organization. To employ Gandhi Tech, and to have
a chance of success with Gandhi Tech, you would need an adequate
organization to implement it. I think that the SPs have been lulled by
organized black PR, disinformation and threat into not organizing.
Yet, by not organizing, all the SPs do is ensure no chance of success.
I think there is a completely misplaced pride in the SPs lack of
organization. It is only by organizing that you can actually put
Gandhi Tech into action. Are you prepared to participate in a militant
organization in touch with the masses willing to non-violently not
cooperate?
© Gerry Armstrong
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org