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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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To: Marine_Uncle
Yeah well---

:o)

Even law recognizes a "necessity defense" when there is something important at stake. E.g you could break into somebody else's locked house that was on fire, without their permission, to rescue a person, a pet or even a valuable piece of art.

You would not be arrested for "breaking and entering" or "trespassing" under such conditions. And even if you were, you could successfully argue in court that a "reasonable person" would not call your action unlawful.

Similarly with the red light: if it's 3:00 a.m., there's no traffic, and you're trying to get your wife who's in labor to the maternty hospital, you'd likely not be arrested, nor would a jury convict you.

Ice Queen Sebelius, on her own unfettered authority as HHS Secretary, demanding that religious people violate their moral code on a life-or-death matter?

I would have no qualms whatsoever about resisting this so-called law, which is actually a piece of contemptible tyranny.

88 posted on 12/29/2012 9:32:25 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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