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To: IronJack
And did that ancient Tea Party not sequester someone elses property and subsequently destroy it?

The point about the stories of both Tea Party and Robin Hood is that no one is under moral obligation to obey an unjust law. After all, neither Tea Party activist or Merry Man had any part in framing the laws that they broke. And in that case, why should other people's ideas of what is legal bind you?

Cider House rules my man - "they aint my rules. I never wrote them".

41 posted on 10/05/2012 12:41:07 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

You might want to bone up on the theory of social contract. We don’t all write all the laws. But we do agree to obey them. Robin Hood was not a citizen of a representative republic; we are.

And I don’t recall the eighth commandment having any qualifications: Thou shalt not steal ... unless it’s from the rich.

Robin Hood was a thief. He may have been a thief with a heart of gold, but the law he broke was not the king’s; it was God’s.


43 posted on 10/05/2012 5:22:42 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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