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To: robertpaulsen
You're equating racial discrimination with our current drug laws? Please.

No. I'm being philisophic and saying that it's sometimes morally OK to disobey the law. Would you agree with the two examples I provided?

30 posted on 12/26/2005 7:14:36 AM PST by jmc813
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To: jmc813
Here at NORML, we receive at least one phone call or email per day from a victim of cannabis prohibition declaring themselves and their criminal case “the next Rosa Parks.”
Ghouls.
31 posted on 12/26/2005 7:20:21 AM PST by Mojave
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To: jmc813
"Would you agree with the two examples I provided?"

No, I wouldn't.

You think you can end discrimination by writing laws protecting people like Rosa Parks? You think things will be better in this country if people are forced to allow Rosa Parks to sit in the front of the bus?

I mean if you, personally, have something against the licensing and registration of certain weapons, you are free to ignore the law. But don't think you're acting in some sort of high-level moral capacity, understandable and acceptable by society in general.

Stealing bread to feed your family, "pulling the plug" on a loved one in pain ... these are understandable, albeit illegal, actions. Refusing to register an illegal machine gun ... well, I doubt you'll get much sympathy in a court of law.

Work to change the laws. Get a consensus. Campaign to change the hearts and minds. Educate people. That's the way it's done. That way it's permanent.

32 posted on 12/26/2005 7:39:06 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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