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  %THREAT USE DEADLY FORCE AGAINST PEACEFUL DISSENT 890430

     In  a  civilized community it should be  illegal  for
governmental officials to threat to use,  or actually use,
deadly  force against peaceful  demonstrators  petitioning
their government for redress of grievance and/or change in
governmental policy/behavior.

     It  should  be illegal for governmental officials  to
issue  orders to subordinates to be prepared to use deadly
force in such circumstances.

     Governmental  officials who use deadly force in  such
circumstances  should  be  sue-able  as  private  citizens
acting in violation of community law, not as agents of the
government  of  the people and by the people and  for  the
people, and therefore immune to legal lawsuits.

     Peaceful  nonviolent  dissent is not a  threat  to  a
government  of  the  people,  by the people  and  for  the
people.   Such  nonviolent  dissent does not  justify  the
threat  or use of deadly force and so such threat and  use
should be made illegal by the government,  and enforced by
the  government  in order to protect the people and  their
democracy.

     People   who  use  deadly  force   against   peaceful
demonstrators  should  be treated as private citizens  who
are violating communal laws.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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