Agreed, mostly, but I think you can make the case that the frustration boiling over among the youth, the trashings and street fighting you cite, did threaten the warmakers' sense of security, along with the large demonstrations and of couirse the rebellion in the military and the resistance of the black populace and the Vietnamese. There's no reason to think that persistent non-violent organizing, escalating only into voluntary submission to arrest, would have threatened them. A high US official said at the time, "Let's face it, we're in a war with the kids, and the kids are winning." I think that …
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Dave Lippman
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Todd, I believe what he meant was that not all forms of nongovernmental violence qualify. In other words, some do. Including most if not all that you cite.
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