How to topple a dictatorship peacefully

[witchy1]

Stoop-shouldered and white-haired at 83, Gene Sharp grows orchids, has yet to master the Internet and hardly seems like a dangerous man.

But for the world’s despots, his ideas can be fatal. For decades, his practical writings on nonviolent revolution — most notably “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” a 93-page guide to toppling autocrats, available for download in 24 languages — have inspired dissidents around the world, including in Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and now Tunisia and Egypt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/middleeast/17sharp.html?_r=1

[witchy1]

Mr. Sharp’s “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action,” a list of tactics that range from hunger strikes to “protest disrobing.”

Advancing freedom takes careful strategy and meticulous planning. Peaceful protest is best, not for any moral reason, but because violence provokes autocrats to crack down.

"If you fight with violence,” Mr. Sharp said, “you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.”

“If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble.”

We continually ask what can we do..........Well here is the answer:

Under headings:

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION
THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (1) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (2)THE STRIKE
THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations103a.html (http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations103a.html)

[Lord Sidious]

Witchy, a democracy is actually an interim phase to a socialist dictatorship.
And that is straight from the mouth of lenin.

[witchy1]

Im sure Mr Sharp would be delighted to hear of Mr Lenins opinion - LOL.

[anklebiter]

Similar to what Gandhi preached and practiced in India - Peaceful, Non-Violent, Non-Cooperation.

[Mad Hatter]

The thing is that if the objective is to re-habilitate the world controlling elite via these methodologies we are going to need consistent timely participation by very large numbers of people.

TPTW are very aware of this, exemplified by the callous use of poverty to frighten the middle class into compliance.

Since we have at our disposal pretty much the means of spreading the message instantaneoulsy all that remains is something to galvanise the required numbers into action.

To overcome the "I'm alright jack" mentatlity means looking for the lowest common denominator but short of stopping everyone from taking a s**t, what is it going to take...:confused:

[witchy1]

Thanks Mad Hatter, that is exactly right. Looks like at the moment it is sporadic, but people are doing it - well trying to undertake peaceful protests write the the MP, etc etc, however we are still fragmented as an entity or single voice and we still have people fixed on the money paradigm as their only way of existance. Perhaps after the crash in about 4 weeks people might start looking around for alternatives.

However I am sure that tptw have the solution for them (FEMA camps) and there currently are no easy alternatives - or none that is getting to the people that will need it. If only we could wrap up Wade's vision and get it out there. People wont look for alternatives unless they absolutely have to. I think humans inherantly detest change and will expect that the "old ways" are restored without any realistic alternatives to give them a choice

Not sure I have the answer either as to how to empower people (specially when they are scared.) A strong inspirational group of like minded people would be great to get the message out amongst the populous
JMHO

[witchy1]

Start Bogging, stick to 1 issue. This vid is a bit cut, but serves the purpose:

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[norman]

Witchy, a democracy is actually an interim phase to a socialist dictatorship.
And that is straight from the mouth of lenin.




ECHO, ECHO, ECHO.......

NO...

We play by the rules here.

And the rules ARE!?

**** them up and destroy them.

[ngogly]

Soviet Union wasn't peacefully defeated by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. SU was temporarily suspended by KGB and zionist jews who were behind it and still are behind most of world crimes. Idea is to soften the face of socialism/communism sadistic regime and to export it to whole world.

Alternative media and new age movement have two main purposes. 1) To be an entertainment for people who start to see the conspiracy. Alternative media stars knowingly push out contradicting information, they don't bother about reputation, they want you to be disappointed and go back to sleep. 2) Trigger the socialist revolution and kill sovereign nations, cultures, countries and independent economies. Capitalism needs restarts and they need someone or something to blame - revolution is a good candidate.

People in Estonia wanted freedom from sadistic soviet Russia, instead we get democracy, the same thing but in western package. We still are a part of Soviet Union renamed to European Union. I'm pretty sure that in one day Russia will be incorporated in to EU and Soviet Union will be restored officially, maybe under the different name. Estonia isn't a good example of defeating dictatorship peacefully, our people were just cheated. Yes, we had no gunshots and had a big change but finally the dictator just changed hats.

[Lord Sidious]

Soviet Union wasn't peacefully defeated by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. SU was temporarily suspended by KGB and zionist jews who were behind it and still are behind most of world crimes. Idea is to soften the face of socialism/communism sadistic regime and to export it to whole world.

Alternative media and new age movement have two main purposes. 1) To be an entertainment for people who start to see the conspiracy. Alternative media stars knowingly push out contradicting information, they don't bother about reputation, they want you to be disappointed and go back to sleep. 2) Trigger the socialist revolution and kill sovereign nations, cultures, countries and independent economies. Capitalism needs restarts and they need someone or something to blame - revolution is a good candidate.

People in Estonia wanted freedom from sadistic soviet Russia, instead we get democracy, the same thing but in western package. We still are a part of Soviet Union renamed to European Union. I'm pretty sure that in one day Russia will be incorporated in to EU and Soviet Union will be restored officially, maybe under the different name. Estonia isn't a good example of defeating dictatorship peacefully, our people were just cheated. Yes, we had no gunshots and had a big change but finally the dictator just changed hats.

Aha! Someone with first hand knowledge.
Thanks for your rundown.
Do you recall Gorbachev saying that glasnost and perestroika were for external consumption only? And that nothing would change at home?
I can't find anything that references it on the net.

[ktlight]

Soviet Union wasn't peacefully defeated by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. SU was temporarily suspended by KGB and zionist jews who were behind it and still are behind most of world crimes. Idea is to soften the face of socialism/communism sadistic regime and to export it to whole world.

Alternative media and new age movement have two main purposes. 1) To be an entertainment for people who start to see the conspiracy. Alternative media stars knowingly push out contradicting information, they don't bother about reputation, they want you to be disappointed and go back to sleep. 2) Trigger the socialist revolution and kill sovereign nations, cultures, countries and independent economies. Capitalism needs restarts and they need someone or something to blame - revolution is a good candidate.

People in Estonia wanted freedom from sadistic soviet Russia, instead we get democracy, the same thing but in western package. We still are a part of Soviet Union renamed to European Union. I'm pretty sure that in one day Russia will be incorporated in to EU and Soviet Union will be restored officially, maybe under the different name. Estonia isn't a good example of defeating dictatorship peacefully, our people were just cheated. Yes, we had no gunshots and had a big change but finally the dictator just changed hats.

Aha! Someone with first hand knowledge.
Thanks for your rundown.
Do you recall Gorbachev saying that glasnost and perestroika were for external consumption only? And that nothing would change at home?
I can't find anything that references it on the net.

I found this: "While Gorbachev's political initiatives were positive for freedom and democracy in the Soviet Union and its Eastern bloc allies, the economic policy of his government gradually brought the country close to disaster. By the end of the 1980s, severe shortages of basic food supplies (meat, sugar) led to the reintroduction of the war-time system of distribution using food cards that limited each citizen to a certain amount of product per month. Compared to 1985, the state deficit grew from 0 to 109 billion rubles; gold funds decreased from 2,000 to 200 tons; and external debt grew from 0 to 120 billion dollars."

http://www.answers.com/topic/mikhail-gorbachev