Peace only works in certain circumstances. An important religious leader in Iraq would not convince the Americans to leave by starving himself. Nelson Mandela actually started stockpiling arms for a war in his country, and if I'm not mistaken, blew up a factory or warehouse. I read a book on him a long time ago, so I could be thinking of someone else entirely. There's a time and a place for everything. There's a time to argue it out with the legeslative bodies that oppress you, and if that gets you nowhere, if you've exhausted all other choices in a morally right cause of freedom, then its time to pick up your guns and charge the barricades.

Adrian