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Originally posted by Seahawk
In a political context, it is as childish to posit the violence engaged in by one group as 'peacekeeping" and the opposing group as "terrorism," as it is to regard one side as "good" and the other as "evil." It is the interdependent violence inherent in all political systems that is made evident in this film.
In a, "political context"? From the website, "The Mises Institute, with offices in Auburn, Alabama, seeks a radical shift in the intellectual climate as the foundation for a renewal of the free and prosperous commonwealth"...isn't a commonwealth a political structure?
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No, not to my knowledge. That a couple of states use it in their official titles isn't significant as to the basic definition.
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I thought he said all political systems are violent? How is HIS commonwealth going to be non-violent?
And the moral revelance is simply putrid. He needs to travel more.
There is one poignant scene in this movie in which thousands of unarmed, peaceful individuals confront the well-armed military forces of the state.
China? Nixon? LBJ? Boat People? Glasnost?
I am all for reforming the obscene political mess created by both political parties, the abject apathy of the American politic and the concomitant impacts on the republic, btw.
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You do realize that all of your referenced persons and events are examples of governments and government officers that were essentially mass murderers, right?