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| Dandandat | May 7 2007, 02:34 PM Post #16 |
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Time to put something here
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I would have to agree, when I think of the term "civil disobedience" I think of passively braking a law in a public manner in order to prove a point, most likely being that said law is oppressive or wrong in some other way. Speeding and jaywalking are not forms of civil disobedience, they are most likely* just an individual braking the law in order to connivance them selves. * I say most likely, because one can image a jaywalk, for example, to be a case of civil disobedience; when say the town just posted a new law jaywalking fine of $5,000 and then some citizen of that town believes that fine to be oppressive so goes to the nearest area with a police officer on duty and jaywalks just to get that fine and then fight it. But if some one brakes the law though jaywalking because they don’t want to walk the few extra feet to the next intersection, that’s not civil disobedience, its just some one braking the law and hoping not to get caught. The same thing can go for not paying ones taxes. If the reason for not paying the taxes is because you find an fault in them, taxation with out representation for example, that you wish to fight the establishment on, then it would be civil disobedience. If you didn’t pay your taxes and hope because you want to say on the coinage and careless about other tax payers and hope that you never get caught, then that’s just braking the law. |
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| 24thcenstfan | May 7 2007, 07:08 PM Post #17 |
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Something Wicked This Fae Comes
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| Franko | May 7 2007, 08:36 PM Post #18 |
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They'll have to pry my Xbox 360 controller out of my dead hands when the time comes. I think Somerled was referring to civil protest and stuff like that. I marched in an anti-war rally once. Cuz she was hot. Years ago my band played at a rally for Greenpeace. For free. But that was more about the whale thingy. I got accidentally pepper-sprayed once by a friend who was trying to figure out how it worked. Most unpleasant. Just got a bit of it, so it wasn't that bad. Just had to lube the eyeballs for a minute. |
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| Fesarius | May 7 2007, 09:55 PM Post #19 |
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Admiral
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Franko, I'm glad to see that your politics meant something to you at that time.
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