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Quote by: butterbut  What power do private organizations have to stop tyrannical governments? The world's governments alone have the power to stop this. Therefore, they have the responsiblity. Its simple right and wrong.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller |
A great quote, no doubt, but where's the relevance? It's not applicable.
Your just dealing with hardcore libertarians who don't think it should be up to the government to deal with things like this. That people in locales should solve their own problems, rather then having globilized government forces running the world. Unfortunatly, while this is a good idea, it's not very practical because we have come to a point in time where governments around the world have accumulated so much wealth, power and weaponry that the people can no longer simply rise up, or they will just be slaughtered and put in jail.
Case in point; burma. A revolution successfully thwarted by genocide by the government. (btw 10 monks dead? gimme a break. i guarantee they have killed thousands by now...a senior official who has fled has supported this notion, that's why they cut the internet and phone lines, so the world doesn't hear about it)