"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
MLK Encouraged Children to be Thrown in Jail to Fight Racism
Along came Martin Luther King, Jr., who came up with a new radical idea:
What if we use our children to protest for us? What if children did mass civil disobedience and peacefully non-complied with the law? What if the children marched in the town with the strictest Jim Crow laws in the country? Surely the police would not openly attack innocent children protesting...Wrong!
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Another piece anecdotal evidence to show that government cannot be changed from the inside out. Voting has also demonstrated that making change possible is impossible.
I think this article illustrates police violence has a long history to it--using water cannons on kids! Would you be willing to subject your child to such trauma for an ideal?