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To: Marine_Uncle
Bless you. I truly believe everyone should resist in whatever way they can.

And if you truly can't personally resist, then you have to personally support those who do.

I read somewhere (my usual authority: "I read somewhere...") that all law depends on voluntary compliance, such that if 5% of people consistently defy the law, it cannot be enforced.

Oh, they'll try. They'll take the first resisters and slam them, bankrupt and jail them, make a big spectacle out of it in order to intimidate the rest. But if 5% continue to say "I will not," their numbers start growing and soon the law is a dead letter.

Or so I've heard.

83 posted on 12/29/2012 7:15:37 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers?" - St. Augustine of Hippo)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I'd be a bit careful with what you wrote. :)
You probably can come up with thousands of scenarios where one could figure on 5% of the citizenry not agreeing with some element of a law. Say stopping at red lights, so people are not inadvertently mowed down. Just as one gross example.
Whatever. But surely many of us are at best very displeased with how this Administration, and the House and Senate as how they pulled a cute one off on the American public regarding this UN-Godly Socialist program.

I'll leave it go at that.
87 posted on 12/29/2012 9:20:26 AM PST by Marine_Uncle (I'm going John Galt.... But. Honor must be earned.)
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