Disobey!

Townhall.com ^ | May 13, 2015 | John Stossel

[Biggirl]

It may take civil disobedence to bring about change.

[xzins]

Ben Carson got laughed at the other day by Alan Colmes for saying that we should only obey duly enacted legislative law and ignore judicialized law.

I think it made perfect sense.

Having Colmes ridicule you is no shame, but Colmes is the knee-jerk, read-the-talking-points kind of liberal, so it’s always nice to explain to them. They’re not real deep thinkers.

[Reddy]

We started watching Boardwalk Empire recently. Although fiction, it portrays ordinary people ignoring Prohibition.

The ordinary people need to start ignoring Federal laws that are unconstitutional.

[Da Coyote]

I think more of the Obamathings floating in an outhouse than I think of ANY government agency...military excepted.

The are slime.

Pure, liberal scum-slime.

Hopefully, our military will remember their oath to defend the Constitution and join us for Revolution II.

[Responsibility2nd]

“Law is not always the best indication of what is good behavior. Riots in places such as Ferguson and Baltimore remind us that even cops sometimes behave badly.”

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Stossel - as always - is a freaking idiot.

[ifinnegan]

The push back will be heavy, hard and draconian.

Civil disobedience works within civil societies and peoples.

[cuban leaf]

It’s why I cancelled my health insurance as of Jan 1 2014 and will not pay a penny for it until the mandate is repealed.

[dware]

I've said it til I'm blue in the face, and I'll keep saying it:

"Governments...derive their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed"

What does this mean? It means that we

CONSENT to a corrupt IRS by filing taxes each year.

CONSENT to a crooked financial system every time we accept or spend a greenback FRN

CONSENT to the destruction of the 2nd Amendment every time we walk into a gun store and submit to a background check.

It's time we STOP CONSENTING.

[Alex Murphy]

Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it's time for civil disobedience. Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate. Murray's suggestion -- laid out in "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission," will make some people nervous. He argues that citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful regulations, essentially ones that forbid assault, theft and fraud.

PFL

[zeestephen]

Re: “...citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful regulations...”

Great in theory.

Not so great if it’s your money or freedom that’s on the line.

The principled resistance of Christian bakers to gay marriage has resulted in closed businesses and civil lawsuits in several states.

Here in Washington state, state government is actually the lead plaintiff in one lawsuit.

[lormand]

All branches of the US government are lawless and when not breaking the law, operate in an immoral and unethical fashion. The Government is too big to redesign itself.

If they do not follow the law, why should we?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Why shouldn’t the citizens ignore the laws?

Fraudulently documented foreigners do it daily and the government wants to reward them for it.

The government ignores the laws all the time.

It’s time for the citizens to do likewise.

[Kaslin]

If you don't like what he says, than don't read him. No one forced you to.

GOT IT?

[dware]

Not so great if it’s your money or freedom that’s on the line.

Freedom isn't free. The Founders had money, families, businesses, farms, etc. They sacrificed most of them willingly, in the name of liberty. We're obviously some kind of special cupcakes? Better in some way than the Founders?

[katana]

In some form or another it usually does.

[nathanbedford]

John Stossel neglected to illustrate his point of view with the example of the hopelessly failed war on drugs. He might also have cited prohibition as another example of widespread scofflaw noncompliance which simply so undermined the law as to render it ludicrous. As the Poles of the Solidarity movement said about the communist regime and its failed economics, "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."

As a conservative, I am appalled by the idea that our civil society is disintegrating under our feet because elitists are passing laws from the top down which are hopelessly complex and which inevitably make criminalists of us all. Are we all pretending to obey the laws and are they pretending that we do (except when it suits them to drop the pretense)?

Rather than embrace the opening act of anarchy with widespread civil disobedience, conservatives ought first to have recourse to Article V.

[Noumenon]

Now, you have to ask yourself: what would Michael Collins do?

I think I know...

[Kaslin]

If you noticed the article is actually about Charles Murray