Greatest Misconception 5: Passive Resistance

In 2006 a student was tasered for passively resisting arrest. The student claimed he was mimicking the actions of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. However this is not correct as passive resistance and non-violent disobedience are not the same thing.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Taser_incident for more information on the tasering incident.

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[BiggBrotha]

Wasn't Gandhi a racist who was a lawyer in South Africa? Ironic how he is place along side MLK in this video. Life is funny

[EnigmaHood]

@BiggBrotha No need to be an ass. He referred to Blacks as Kaffirs when he was in South Africa, he was still pro British at the time, and he served as a medic in the Zulu Wars. He changed though, just like how Malcolm X changed. But really, that is irrelevant to the topic of this video.

[TheErraticTheory]

I must say I didn't know the difference. Now, I understand that the goal is to get as many people arrested publicly for crime in order to bring attention to the injustice of the law. If the story of the day is the violence in the streets, the injustice of the law can be over looked and even strengthened. Disobedience not resistance should be emphasized as the key to all those who wish to overturn any unfair or unjust law. Your goal is to publicly break the law and accept the punishment publicly.

[fa11234]

$220,000?! He's rich, bitch!!! I like this passive resistance method of civil disobedience.

[Antioxidantt]

idk miracle gro is good maybe even universally renowned i put it in the pots and big plants come up lol

[EnigmaHood]

@samysasy419 I don't buy it. If they are advanced enough to travel between stars, they are probably advanced enough to have numerous colonies on other worlds already. They don't need to come all the way to Earth just to steal our fertilizer.

[samysasy419]

@EnigmaHood Are you listening to what I'm saying? If they destroyed their homeworld through pollution or some sort of war or natural catalysmic event, then they might try to find another world that can support life, instead of spending 100s or 1000s of years terraforming another world. I don't know there physiology, but for the sake of the story, lets assume it's like ours. Life is very rare, and space is very vast, it could take them 1000s of years to reach another Earth-like planet, who knows?

[EnigmaHood]

@samysasy419 No, we have evidence that they do, it's not speculation. Why would they need to come all the way to Earth just for medicine or food? If they can't make those things on their own (assuming they need medicine or food in the first place) then they would have never made it out of the stone age let alone be advanced enough to travel between stars. Same goes for needing fertilizer...Are you even thinking about what you're saying? Aliens come to planet Earth for... fertilizer?

[samysasy419]

@EnigmaHood We havn't proved that amino acids do exist in comets or asteroids, we're just speculating. And I didn't mean that they would need plants for extracting energy from the sun, there are a miriad of other uses for plants and animals, like medicine, food. Plants are good because they fertilize the soil, so we can grow other crops, if they did what we are currently doing to the Earth, than their planet is probably unihabitable. That's why they might try to find another world.

[EnigmaHood]

@samysasy419 Why would they need that? If they are advanced enough to travel between stars, I have a hard time believing that they don't have more efficient methods of extracting energy from sunlight. I can't imagine why they would want protein of all things, what's the point? In any case, they could probably engineer it themselves if they wanted, after all the vital amino acids are already found on comets and other planets.