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To: microgood
This is an act of civil disobedience

B.S. Civil disobediance is an act taken as a last resort. The Founders tried every possible legal avenue available before resorting to it.

How many of these "evil fighters" even vote? How many have written their representatives? Organized petitions to redress grievances? Tried to convince their fellow citizens of the rightness of their cause?

There's nothing noble about breaking the law because you don't like it or because its somehow cool.

Every right comes with responsibility. When they've exhausted the responsible means to change laws in a democratic society, then and only then, do they have the right to break those laws and even at that point, they should still be arrested and turned over to the court system.
42 posted on 04/21/2008 5:34:45 PM PDT by chrisser (The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
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To: chrisser
B.S. Civil disobediance is an act taken as a last resort. The Founders tried every possible legal avenue available before resorting to it.

I have read your definition nowhere. You must have made it up.

How many of these "evil fighters" even vote? How many have written their representatives? Organized petitions to redress grievances? Tried to convince their fellow citizens of the rightness of their cause?

Given that they are up against the lies and propaganda of the state and federal governments, who actually now try to imprison people for advocating drug legalization, I think they are a little out gunned. Besides, who is to decide when they have exhausted all other means, you?

There's nothing noble about breaking the law because you don't like it or because its somehow cool.

There is, however, if a law is unjust, as the pot laws are.

Every right comes with responsibility. When they've exhausted the responsible means to change laws in a democratic society, then and only then, do they have the right to break those laws and even at that point, they should still be arrested and turned over to the court system.

Again, who decides when this has happened. Organizations in this country have been trying for thirty years to fight against the lies of government to no avail. Must they wait for another generation of youth to be destroyed by drug warriors before they act? I think not. In California and Nationwide, for example, even though the clear majority wants medical marijuana available, the Feds refuse to budge. When the Feds tell the majority of American people to screw themselves, I think it is time to act.


43 posted on 04/21/2008 6:11:18 PM PDT by microgood
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