"Constitutional protections and freedoms wrought by the notion of ignoring the rule of law..."
The phrase 'an unjust law is no law at all' has been carried out from the foundation of our Country all the way through Martin Luther King, Jr. By your thinking our freedoms should have been do away with years ago.
Men standing up to bad laws is what gave us our freedom in the first place. Should we just stop? When the code is out of harmony with the moral law civil disobeidence should be established.
An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. Paraphrased from Aquinas.
All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Paraphrased from Buber.
Yes, I agree with you - we need to stand up to bad laws. What have you personally done to do that in this case? I'm only asking because it appears many want the Bushes to do whatever it takes, even go to jail, but they haven't put themselves on the line like that as yet.