Not quite agreeing with the first one, I skipped ahead to this sentence and I heard the voice of my 79 year-old father, a WWII veteran with a purple heart and the most fiery patriot I've ever met. He tells me he would have marched with Dr. King if he hadn't worried about leaving the support of me and the rest of his family to my mother, should he have been hurt or killed.
I'm so proud to see other people standing up for this sentiment. I'm not in favor of all of our entitlements programs, but I think we have to keep trying to eliminate racial inequality in our society once and for all. I think we're close, maybe much closer than justice O'Connor said in her recent commentary on the Michigan university ruling.
About the first sentence: it is impossible to tell true civil disobedience from a charade. It is the ones who are calling for violent uprising in support of Moore who are close to violating the law in a major way; and for right now, even they are still protected by the first amendment -- as far as I can tell. We need to be careful about not giving them a fulfilled prophecy.