Wow, I thought this kind of thing was done away with years ago

[eppie]

Hi,
No, not even 'partial'. Look at Northern Ireland, look at the Middle East, look at the Balkans, look at Sri Lanka, look throughout history. No group that espoused violence and hatred ever ended either violence or hatred. As has been said before, 'an eye for an eye' yields a blind world.

--Pete

First the comparisons you mention are not really valid.
Second, I understand your point, but it is easy to make when you are white middle class in the 60's in the US. A country were an eye for an eye is more or less in the constitution (with the weapons and all) and I guess you can at least imagine that people that for years are treated like 2nd grade citizens, are victims of police brutality and lynch mobs after a few 100 years say to themselves.....I won't take this anymore.


The big problem of course being that the victims of such behaviour are often inncocent people.


But as I said before, murder or terrrorism and freedom fighting can sometimes be difficult to distinguish. In teh case of the KKK it is not so difficult to make that distinction.