The individual, the society, and violence

Individuals have opinions. Society, which is composed of many individuals with many different opinions, has responsibilities to itself to maintain a certain level of safety, well being, organization, consistency (stability). In a free society, individuals should and should be able to express their opinions without punishment, isolation, or retribution. When society is threatened, either from within or without, to such an extent that the institutions established to maintain order, to maintain that certain level of safety, security, themselves turn to violence, then both revolutionary violence and fascistic violence occurs. Revolutionary violence is that violence which becomes necessary to defend the general idealistic principles by the people who are resisting the fascistic violence, which is destabilizing the society. Fascistic violence is that violence and rhetoric which divides, compromises any establishment of order and stability. Opinions do not initiate any of this violence, even though opinions can be lies, inaccurate, or truthful, none of which have anything to do with the destructive influences actively committing violence rather than just talking about it.

Violence itself is composed of, not just physical violence, but also property, enforcement, and what I call esoteric violence, like threats, bullying, and displays of threatened power.

To say there is never a reason for revolutionary violence is to deny historical facts in which resistance of all types, including violence, are the only solutions that overcome violence perpetuated by the powerful, by either government or fiefdom, by gangster or vigilante. Passivism is not a defense against fascistic violence because in a world of little justice, there is never recompense for fascistic violence.

I say this with the understanding that Christian faith in gods' mercy and life after death is at the heart of every liberal's reaction to the types of violence we've witnessed lately, and many of us have witnessed for three quarters of a century.

Let me say something about what I believe is revolutionary violence, acceptable. Justice for those who are responsible for crimes against humanity is violence to those who commit crimes against humanity. Equality is violence toward those who do not want equality. If the society was just, if the society was equal, we would not be here today. Outside of the wars we love to hate, in America, all those who did not bring the banks, the wealthy, the corrupt, the treason to justice are themselves as responsible for where we are now. To recommend justice and equality will bring violence down on those responsible. Is vengeance always violence or is it justice?

Why shouldn't we not just ask, but demand, our government do what it's supposed to do? It would be simple wouldn't it?

Just vote the fuckers away. This is where all those individuals with opinions come in, every one got one. Does society want Obama put into prison because they think a black man shouldn't have been president and ruined the country? Of course not. But did it want Obama to basically excuse the mortgage companies for their greed and treat mortgages as too big to fail? Of course not. Here's another.

Did society really want, after learning that the government lied about the reasons to go to war with Iraq, want the liars and treasonous politicians, including the president to go unpunished, much less, ignored?

So let's go to the present where a completely dishonest man, a rapist, an ignoramus about the world except for the golden rooms he lives in, becomes, through the so called democratic process, an American president, completely, with congresses permission, destroys any semblance to the real democratic process contained in the constitution, that even with its faults makes more sense than listening and believing and allowing a complete totalitarian egomaniac to run and ruin the society even further than it has been in recent times. Yes. If we aren't going to commit esoteric violence by demanding and resisting this tyranny, then, though unwanted, I would rather have another kind of chaos than the type we have now.

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