Agreed.
If we pick and choose the laws and only follow the ones that we like, we'll have anarchy and chaos. If there is a law that one does not like, the required course of action is to effect a change of that law, not to disregard it.
To some extent. its like the "concealed means concealed" comments I so often see.....its a bad road to start down.
Hmmm....
So its revolution or compliance? No space for civil disobedience? How many times have Gun owners and other put their ass on the line by risking charges to move the ball forward in the fight for our rights? Yes, it would be nice if voting both always fixed all. However sometimes people have defy a law to see it questioned or reviewed. The choice to defy unjust laws has a long and valid history. How many movements that have furthered rights in this country has relied on those that put skin in the game and risked?
The gentleman arrested in Fredrick is most likely foolish, the future will tell. I can not however stand in agreement that it is revolution or compliance with unjust laws. Sometimes to see things put right it takes is a woman to say....no I will sit in the front of the bus, or man to say no am allowed to carry here, anyone picketing the White House for suffrage even if it means arrest, even if it defies a law. To say the only choices are revolution or voting are the only paths to further freedom, forgets or simply rejects all those that use civil disobedience in the promotion of freedom.
I have nothing but respect for those such as Danbus(a local example) that risked money, jail and a criminal record. Revolution or compliance, hoping someday an unjust law is changed, are not the only choices. The acts of such are not the road to anarchy and chaos as suggested.
I love good quotes:
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. -Alexander Bickel
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"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law." -MLK
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal but I was proud of my crime. -MKL
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Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -Robert A. Heinlein