7 Sep 09, 08:05 jack: if there will be civil unrest due to hunger .. why do family defend themselves from looters.. |
7 Sep 09, 07:43 jack: not people power ... more of civil unrest |
7 Sep 09, 07:42 jack: not people power... mover of civil unrest |
7 Sep 09, 07:40 jack: why blame the guns.. |
13 Nov 08, 21:17 apple: Another people power now? I don't think we can have a repeat - at least not in the near future. |
13 Nov 08, 21:15 apple: re role of military in Feb 1986 people power, and their current disposition: "1986" was a failed coup, but became momentuous bec of confluence of reasons. Indeed, it was a shining moment for Phils |
13 Nov 08, 21:12 apple: society puts value to guns, i.e. the one holding it instantly feels 'powerful.' Men holding guns therefore become more embolden with their power. |
13 Nov 08, 21:10 apple: thanks for this provocative reply. first point, guns are not neutral instruments. The argument that 'guns-don't-kill, people do' is the major line of gun-owners' groups. Guns have social value. |
13 Nov 08, 12:57 jay: i wonder if the current soldiers would still hesitate their orders should a new poeple's power be called. just my thoughts on where your efforts will be of better use |
13 Nov 08, 12:56 jay: with which they assaulted the british's sense of civilization. at the current state of moral depravity being displayed in the streets of manila or quezon city, |
13 Nov 08, 12:54 jay: and that is my country's unique gift to history just as Gandhi's nonviolent protest accomplished. they were freed from british rule not by the power of arms but by the power of the moral convictions |
13 Nov 08, 12:51 jay: bay. for one who experienced it, i sincerely believe that nowhere else in the world would that bloodless revolution would have worked |
13 Nov 08, 12:50 jay: success? but build the moral fortitude that stayed the hands of the soldiers in their tanks that fateful night of "people power" in August 2 decades ago will be a dam that will keep the tidewater at |
13 Nov 08, 12:47 jay: to try to scream for laws of gun control is like trying to prevent the tide from coming in using "banig". you get them to pass the law and you think you achieved something - how do you measure your |
13 Nov 08, 12:43 jay: change the spiral of violence. |
13 Nov 08, 12:42 jay: throughout history, in all the modern civilization, it is not control of the killing waepon that brought peace to the land - it is the unwillingness of those who weild them that do will eventually |
13 Nov 08, 12:40 jay: of the corruption and severe poverty and injustice committed by those who are supposed to enforce the lawa of the land |
13 Nov 08, 12:39 jay: the many catholic priests who joined the communist rebels and took up arms in the days of the marcos dictatorship in the face |
13 Nov 08, 12:37 jay: poverty and hopelessness erodes the scrupples of the most moral of creatures. look into your history for examples |
13 Nov 08, 12:36 jay: it is the rapid deterioration of the deep moral convictions that we grew up with in that long ago past that is the bigger problem |