The Myth of Peaceful Protest

I wonder that everyone has so low an estimation of the Public Peace, that they can consider anything ‘peaceful’ whose sole intent is to cause disruption and I have been in enough Peaceful Protests to know that their intent it to cause the most disruption possible. Apparently what is meant by ‘Peace’ here is simply the absence of any intent, starting off, of actually murdering anybody. Yet how often do these Peaceful Protests naturally and even intentionally escalate into riots, where, if murder isn’t deliberate, then only the densest of idiots should not have expected it as a simple matter of course.

We only need to look at some of the very numerous instances in History. Well, yes, the whole idea of ‘Peaceful Protest’ is of only relatively recent invention – we had Thoreau’s idea of civil disobedience, and then Gandhi and Martin Luther King – all three intellectually presiding over some of the most violent riots in History, all while preening their non-violent credentials.

I had visited India in the Eighties and met a certain Professor at one of the more fashionable Guru Ashrams. He had known Gandhi from one of the British Prison Camps where the British kept everybody they would suspect of Treason while they fought the Japanese and the Germans during World War Two. The Professor told the story of a young man hounding Gandhi for advice on Non-Violence, not saying that the young man was himself, but it probably was, as such stories go. Anyway, Gandhi is finally fed up with being bothered by this annoying young man and lets out that he never believed in Non-Violence for a second, that he was first a foremost a Lawyer, and that the British could only hang him for sedition if he OVERTLY ESPOUSED VIOLENCE. So, while engineering the largest and deadliest riots in human history, he was careful to instruct the Rioters to be peaceful, knowing full well that People’s Nature would take over and do what it would always do. For Gandhi Non-Violence was not a Philosophy of Peace. It was a Legal Stratagem.

Anyway, these 3 Big Philosophers for Peaceful Protest have conditioned the World to assume that every GATHERING RIOT has to be by some given logic a “Peaceful Protest”. Does anybody ever bother to go into such mobs to ask what the general disposition of that particular collective mind happens to be? I’m sure that it would be learned that most every body is intent upon assembling such a preponderance of Numbers and weight of Force that the Government or Ruling Classes could be overthrown, and, yes, by means of murderous bloodbath if it comes to that. No, it does not have to be the deliberate plan of each individual – they might not awake in the morning with murder on their minds, but the typical dynamic of Mob Violence never involves the deliberate intent of every individual. However, it is extremely naïve to suppose that the Mob Leaders don’t know what is what, and while they strenuously claim that they did EVERYTHING to keep their Mobs under control, they never renounce the Gains that the Mob Violence brings them. Gandhi readily accepted Indian Independence that came at the cost of millions of lives snuffed out by his ‘peaceful demonstrations’, and Martin Luther King must have celebrated that he was able to coerce the American Government in to granting his people special benefits and privileges based solely on their race and ethnic affiliation only after his ‘peaceful protests’ had lead to a series of American Cities being burned to the ground. If any other Race had jobs and college slots left open to them solely on the bases of their Race, well, that would be Racist. But if you can burn down a few Cities and threaten to burn more, that changes things in no way that a Peaceful Protest ever could have.

When has there ever been a Peaceful Demonstration? Yes, they remain peaceful as long as they are small and unsuccessful. But whenever sufficient numbers show up and the crowd senses their advantage, they all turn to riot. I can only suppose that America and America’s European Lap Dogs know this Truth, and by pushing by every means the acceptance of Peaceful Protest upon Nations outside of American Jurisdiction, they are only aiming at their destabilization and overthrow. America does not advance Peaceful Protest around the World in order to advance the cause of Peace, but because they consider the bloody overthrow of Non-American Regimes to be in their own self-interest – that by destroying another People’s Golden City, they can make off with one silver candlestick they didn’t have before – simple Barbarian Rapacity which is all America, or indeed England, has ever cared about. What should really concern us is the News Medias – the CNNs and the BBCs – that are nothing more than propaganda outlets for all of this sinister evil. Or perhaps these news people are REALLY so stupid as to believe what they are saying. Perhaps being stupid is one of their career requirements. After all, I can’t think of any News Person who has ever studied anything at University besides Journalism. No History, no Sociology, no Poly-Sci. They are kept like Perfect Airheads, and only taught about the 5 W’s (who what where when why). It’s like innocent children covering the News… except that most of them are a bunch of back stabbing drunks.

Now let’s look a few recent ‘peaceful demonstrations’, and see if these are the type of things we really want.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution started on the model of what would be called by the American and European Media as ‘Peaceful Protest’. And it was ‘peaceful’, that is, until the very moment when they saw their advantage and used it to capture every office of Government and then to unleash their Reign of Terror. 20 Million people were murdered in the wake of that Peaceful Protest. Then we had Tiananmen Square. The Chinese Officials knew for a fact what was at stake. These were the same Leaders, who, back when they were young, were the killers of the Cultural Revolution. THEY more than anybody knew what the Tiananmen Square Mob was capable of, indeed, what the Leaders of that Mob were deliberately planning. Nobody fills a Nation’s Capital with millions of potentially violent rioters for the simple fun of it.

America itself once had such a dilemma on their hands. After World War One, the veteran soldiers were upset that their pensions were so worthless at the same time as the Prohibition Laws forbade them the solace of getting Drunk about it, and so they marched upon Washington, the American Capitol, and set up a Tent City where they watched and waited as their numbers and strength gathered. It was ‘peaceful’ until it appeared that there were sufficient demonstrators available to overrun every Government Building and effectively pull-off a successful Coup, destroying the Federal Government if that had suddenly become their whim. So the Government, not wishing to be murdered in some great bloodbath, mobilized the Army and the demonstrators were dispersed, much as the Chinese dispersed the demonstrators at Tiananmen Square and just as the Burmese Government dispersed its rioters. America shakes a finger of blame at the Burmese Generals and at the Chinese, but America was not the least bit squeamish about charging the Cavalry into the Veterans Tent City. And I do not blame them for what they did then, but only for this later hypocrisy and convenient forgetfulness. One cannot allow the Fate of a Government and the stability and order of a Nation to hang upon the whims of a Mob of rioters – and anytime you have a few hundred thousand people in the same room, I’m sorry, but that’s a ‘Mob of Rioters’ – oh, unless we are talking of America’s new phenomena of Tourist Protestors and Fashion Protests – hundreds of thousands of ‘protestors’ coordinated by their Churches and Clubs to show up on a buses, to hear a few speeches and some celebrity singing, and then to leave on the same buses hardly before it gets dark. Its got to be more fun than simply going on a country picnic outing or a visit to Disney Land. But its not really a Protest while its fairly certain everyone will get back on the bus and leave. Its only Entertainment. And by conducting such staged events American Politicians can claim to the rest of the World that they permit free speech and public assembly.

But when protests aren’t carefully staged, when buses aren’t lined up to take everybody home when the last song is sung, then Violence is simply in the nature of such things. Again we can remember the Peaceful French Revolution, the Peaceful Russian Revolution, the Peaceful Chinese Revolution. Even the Peaceful American Revolution that murdered 3,000 British Peace Keepers at Bunker Hill.