Had a very interesting discussion

[zeemike]

5. It is about civil disobedience

Non cooperation with evil.
Spray paint and throwing thing is not that...in the civil rights days they got beaten and did not fight back...did not gird themselves with armor but willing took the beatings...and it shamed the Jim Crow south and Bull Conner lost in the world of public opinion.
A good example of this is in the movie about Gandhi....where the protesters each in turn went up to the guards and tried to enter...the first one got smacked in the head with a gun but....but the next one stood up and they had to smack him too....and the protesters lined up in a long line each one waiting to get beaten down...after only a few the guards would only pretend to hit them and the protesters would pretend to fall because even the police found the whole thing disgusting....Gandhi won...and so did MLK with the same practices
But many had to take some abuse to make it happen.