Malcolm X Self-Defense and Intelligence

The U.S. Constitution holds that he who has a hand on the trigger initiates acts of aggression. This brings to mind Malcolm X position on non-violence when he stated he was "non-violent with those who are non-violent with me. This is intelligence." Malcolm X believed that when the government is not representing appropriately the interests of its people, dealing first and foremost with the crisis issues at home like unemployment, health care, racism, education, etc. and thus perpetuate the victimization of the poor and the needy, then "it is time for us to do whatever is necessary to defend ourselves." The people, including the soldiers of Iraq, are the underdogs (multiply it by a hundred) by all means in the anticipated U.S. invasion of Iraq. It will be only intelligent for the Iraqis to fight against the invaders with rocks and stones, and thus reassert that the U.S. cannot go around the world, thousands of miles away from home, without getting a knock at their front door. And if fear is what stops people from working for peace, let us remember Malcolm X warning that people “should never let themselves be trap intellectually into thinking whenever they do something to defend themselves against the violence of the aggressor that they are being violent.” To organize and speak against the war is an act of self-defense. People of color in the United States and the people of the world cannot afford to adopt the stupidity of the US administration and its media industrial complex. There's still a white man's intelligence running this country, and the consequences are beyond measure for all of us. Weapons of peace must prevail over weapons of death, and the United Nations and the Security Council have the historical responsibility of stopping (or attempting to stop with the few still available measures, like a clear No to War, and adoption of Resolution 377) Bush’s madness for war. The future generations will rejoice when reading their history books about the power of peace embraced by our leaders during this times of chaos, hope, and resistance.