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Well, I foresee any American action as hopefully more peaceable regarding the avoidance of violence. Non-violent protest can and often should be disruptive. If you get enough people involved, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the status quo.
Many major shifts in society or politics happen this way. It is unfortunate that violence often comes to some degree a part of the process. But also consider the dire consequences of the status quo running into such things as economic collapse. What of violence then?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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