[dirtboy]

We ARE a nation of laws, but when one set of laws violate a higher law, we have a holy obligation to disobey.

I personally think the monument should have stayed. However, my opinion really doesn't matter for squat, except to the extent that I try to convince enough other people to act to elect officials and appoint judges who will effect change. Pryor in his position followed the law of the land, which, for all its flaws, is still better than anything else on the planet. I would have preferred a confrontation, but this wasn't the best time or place to challenge federal power. That day will come and hopefully soon, but we need to be on solid ground for it.

[farmer18th]

I would have preferred a confrontation, but this wasn't the best time or place to challenge federal power. That day will come and hopefully soon, but we need to be on solid ground for it.

I hope the day will come, but the point I ask you to consider is that it never will come if we engage in a slavish submission to bad law. The example of the American Revolution is one of uniform, righteous defiance in the face of bad laws. Disobedience gets attention. It galvanizes. It enlightens. A bold defiance on the part of Pryor would have aroused the sleeping conscience of a nation. Conservatives like Pryor put the nation to sleep.