Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Baader Meinhof Questions

1. They protested through the mass destruction they caused by kidnapping, robbing, and bombings.
2. I felt sympathy at first when I could see that the group just really wanted people to understand how they felt and viewed things, but when they decided to do such horrible things to prove their points I stopped feeling bad. The violence just continued to escalate and people stopped viewing them as social activists but instead as terrorists so their violence ruined the chances of most people wanting to follow them for their causes.  
3. Andreas Baader played a huge role in the RAF and was a big part of why the violence escalated the way it did. He planned from the very beginning to have violence as part of their group. If he wasn’t part of the group I think they may have done things differently and actually maybe still around today. The group followed his crazy ideas and I think they did because they actually thought his way would make people want to change for their causes, but in actuality caused the exact opposite.
4. My personal views would always be non violence, but I understood where the people who choose violence are coming from. Sometimes people get so desperate that they think violence is the only answer when in reality it’s never a answer at all.

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