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Neo-fascists, encouraged by Trump plan to take their show to more colleges.


So here is my humble nonviolent solution.



My humble nonviolent direct action to prevent them from creating violence then blaming it "them" liberals is to treat them like lepers used to treated.

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I can't find a good link to explain the ancient practice of lepers being required to ring a bell to warn others of their presence.
It is not PC, now, as it it never was really needed, anyway.

But the concept of treating the alt. right/racist/neo-nazis as the social lepers that they actually are, while also, at the very least confounding their Kristallnacht wet dreams by making their violence obvious as to its real sources, too, is to let them march, but the counter protests should be that people with bells stand testament to their opposition by never getting closer than about 15 feet to them, while ringing hand bells, cow bells, the church bells, too maybe ? , while they march, to warn those that wish to remain healthy, to remain "clean", to stay away from any exposure to their filthy evil .

In point of fact this form of protest has a history in fighting American racism, because non violent Quakers countered the threat of slave hunting in the North in this way, too.
Upon discovering slave hunters in their towns the abolitionist (woman mostly) would tail them where ever they went, ringing a hand bell, a school teacher's bell, to warn both black freemen or any run away slaves, too, I suppose, to go run and hide.

Now, if the neo Nazis have to march, which no matter how misguided and disrespectful doing is to all the heroes of WWII might be, they do have that right,
but don't we all have the right to ring ours bells of freedom, too ?

They think they own the hammer, but we have our own bells. 😇

Thoughts ?

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I didn't know that about Quakers. I really love that story, Geezes.
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" I didn't know that about Quakers."

Sure you do.
Do you know any stories of the volunteer ambulance drivers of WWI ...
E. E. Cummings, Waldo Peirce, Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway were part of it and it was organized by American Friends Service Committee (Quakers, which BTW is was once a pejorative, but is now how members of the Society of Friend, self identify... at least those that I have known)

and then there is this :

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See:
The Society of Friends, while always small in membership, has been influential in the history of reform. The state of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1682, as a safe place for Quakers to live and practice their faith.

Quakers in North America - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers_in_North_America

Many Quakers settled in Rhode Island, due to its policy of religious freedom, as well as the British colony of Pennsylvania which was formed by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for persecuted Quakers.

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The Wiki entry is interesting. I didn't know about the split in the Quakers. My knowledge of Quakers is from Jan de Hartog's novels: "The Peaceable Kingdom" and "The Lamb's War"; and from the movie "Friendly Persuasion." There's a Quaker meeting in Seattle. I've never attended, but I used to read their newsletter, given me by a Quaker friend.

"The Peaceable Kingdom" starts with the beginning of the movement, by Margaret Fell and [Somebody] Fox in England, and moves to Pennsylvania. It's very interesting to me how historical Quakers navigated life among violent people.
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They have been effective in non violent protest, and are an influence of my, but the point is applying their peacable ways to to countering the neo-fascists as I outlined it a good idea ?

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In speaking this on line someone pointed this out to me



It's funny, brave and so it is a perfect counter protest.

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