To continue form my last status....... Civil Disobedience and Anarchy Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. It is one form of civil resistance. In one view (in India, known as ahimsa or satyagraha) it could be said that it is compassion in the form of respectful disagreement. Satyagraha is a particular philosophy and practice within the broader overall category generally known as nonviolent resistance or civil resistance. The term satyagraha was coined and developed by Mahatma Gandhi. He deployed satyagraha in the Indian independence movement and also during his earlier struggles in South Africa for Indian rights. Satyagraha theory influenced Nelson Mandelas struggle in South Africa under apartheid, Martin Luther King, Jr.s and James Bevels campaigns during the civil rights movement in the United States, and many other social justice and similar movements. Rules for satyagraha campaigns Gandhi proposed a series of rules for satyagrahis to follow in a resistance campaign: -harbour no anger -suffer the anger of the opponent -never retaliate to assaults or punishment; but do not submit, out of fear of punishment or assault, to an order given in anger -voluntarily submit to arrest or confiscation of your own property -do not curse or swear Let Aam Aadmi decide whether this is Anarchy or this is Satyagraha. If this Anarchy, then all Indians must first break every statue of Gandhi, remove his portraits from schools, universities, govt offices and parliament, throw Gandhian way of protest into gutters and let your conscience succumb to corridors of power and lick boots of Congress, then you may call it so.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:01:49 +0000
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