Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:28:32 -0500 From: "Rodney D. Coates" Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Organization: Miami University To: Samuel Heilman Subject: Re: Should We Be Silent??? References: If we take your position then there would be no progress, hell blacks would still be living under jim crow and black codes, women still denied the right to vote. I guess you would tell those who oppose the death penalty that they should just stay home. Those who are abused by unfair courts that favor big business to just forget it. We should not pressure the dismal state of race relations in this country. We should ignore the fiasco that was called welfare reform. We should tell those in Rhowanda that to just chill out..the laws will protect them. (While government troups kill innocent babies). We should abide by the CIA selling crack in the inner cities of this country. We should allow the dismantling of Civil rights laws by ultra conservatives. We should not boycott Texeco. We should all the desecration of native american burial sites.. Hell, we should do nothing...and watch all hell break loose as in St. Petersburb...That my dear friend is the result of doing nothing...bosnia is the result of our doing nothing, rhowanda is the result of our doing nothing, the increased number of hate crimes (going from 4000 in 1990 to 9000 in 1995) is the result of our doing nothing. The LA riots was the result of our doing nothing. And if we continue to do nothing...then prepare for what Carl Rowan perdicts as the Coming Race War in America... rodney coates Samuel Heilman wrote: > > As I recall the Constitution followed the Declaration of Independence. > Revolution precedes the establishment of law. The Declaration was > directed at England not at Jefferson's own country and government and > judiciary. Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it > -- isn't that Santayana's point? > > Samuel Heilman > Web page at http://www.soc.qc.edu/Staff/heilman > phone 718 997 2832 > 212 642 2148 > > On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Rodney D. Coates wrote: > > > Samuel Heilman wrote: > > > > > > Violence is what happened. Supporting that (whether by sit-ins or > > > anything else) undermines the a free judiciary. I think we all should > > > avoid that slippery slope. We have to live with O.J.'s and thugs going > > > free occasionally and that is the price of a free judiciary not subject > > > to violence and extra-judicial threats. > > > > > Sir, when in the course of human events, the courts and the laws are > > deemed unjust, then the people shall have the right of redress.. Sounds > > familiar..it comes from our declaration of independence.. > > > > rodney coates > >