brendan rainford wrote:
> Yeah sorry your right, when I was writing that, I was going off the
> top of my head, I checked in PSYCHOLOGY IN HUMANS by Clarkson and its
> around 15-20% but there is great debate on how environment has an
> effect and in which areas.
> As to bricking Nazi headquarters in Manchester, you come down here and
> watch them go 'paki' bashing (i.e. finding an Asian and beating him
> into hospital).
i have been in and seen situations that require due thought. If someone is in the act - you stop them if it is in your power. I do not retaliate - that is a matter for police.
> You tell me you would stand by and watch this.
no to this one
> Watch them flypost racist posters on the wall in front of your house.
yes to this one (But I would go out later and poster over it)
> I would not single out an individual of this party, but I sure will
> stand against the organisation that also incidently kill almost all my
> relatives over 60, and could potentally do it again (not kill all my
> relatives over 60 - they are already dead).
> Maybe it is wrong to brick the building but short of attacking them,
> what else can I do?
>
Education is the best answer i know of. I also understand hating the group. But where they are peaceful - they should have the same limits on freedom as you. If you can stand up and say "NAZI's are bad" then they have the same right to stand up and say "Brendon is bad".
You are also acutely sensitive to your particular group, But think about all the genocides that occur everywhere - The American Indians on 2 continents, Chinese peoples, recently in both Rawanda and what was Yugoslavia, what of the Caananites?
What I am saying is that all of our pasts are filled with genocidal maniacs, everyone of us. Many Nazi's of today cling to a past they were not responsible for. I can olny punish them for their actions directly. Now - if they go around beating people up, then they need to be treated like the "gang" they are, arrest, prosecute em, etc... If they put up posters, hand out fliers and march, then use them as a tool to show the young what NOT to be like.
Bill Roh