[G. Stolyarov II]

How does one hold the law in disregard while obeying it? Long as one obeys it in deed, one's speech cannot be considered seditious in any state but a totalitarian dictatorship.

Let me pose another example. During the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, it was illegal for German citizens to give any refuge to Jews fleeing from genocidal persecution. The common German citizen with a vestige of morality would contend that such a law was inhuman, but still would obey it, for fear of the Reich's monstrous retaliation. Yet, at the same time, he would likely hold in high esteem those who undertook the courageous task of offering the Jews shelter despite the death threats arrayed against them.

Moreover, working within the law is precisely what Miller suggests via a grass-roots abolition movement, but do keep in mind that, while I essentially agree with that method in this case, there are certain instances, such as that in Nazi Germany or any state that forcefully institutes a draft upon its citizens (which is what my first example reminds me of), where the only means of retaliation on the citizens' part is outright disobedience and evasion.

[babyface00]

where the only means of retaliation on the citizens' part is outright disobedience and evasion

Let's not forget that there was a time in our own history when this was true, and it was only a couple hundred years ago.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

Doesn't sound like "working from within the system" to me.

[Willie Green]

How does one hold the law in disregard while obeying it?

By praising scofflaws as "heroes".