"When the agents of a democracy practice torture in their
country's name, they will get away with it unless citizens do
more than disapprove."
I agree, but then I don't... Because I don't know what "more"
citizens are supposed to do...
In the early '70's I associated briefly with a radical group
intent on bringing down our gov't during the Vietnam War--and
found myself at a rock throwing fest in downtown Santa
Cruz--I was happy to throw rocks, but I didn't know at
whom...
on the streets, watching, very disapproving, were a group of
litle old women
--with shopping bags and American flags...
This was the enemy?
I talked to one of them--a shouting match,really‹,and after a
while I realized she wasn't going to change her view of the
world, no matter what I said, or did...and I realized too
that there were a hundred million other people just like
her...
In the end, I had to walk away.
Because I knew she wasn't going to change her mind, and I
didn't see anyway of silencing her aside from clubbing her to
death...
So the next week I was with a different group== civil
disobedience, a peaceful demonstration blocking the
courthouse steps
And out came the tact squad with their shields and clubs,
with the point of the wedge headed straight for me...
And I ran...
I don't really see anyway out of this dilemma, unless we want
to do to the people in charge what they are currently doing
to those that oppose them...
It is this trap, I think--this kind of dilemma--no way in, no
way out--that noir has traditionally been about.
"The twp-way trap"--as Thompson called it.
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