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To: King Prout
I'm being honest when I say I don't know how.
94 posted on 09/21/2003 2:20:51 PM PDT by PurVirgo (Here's a tip: Never weed eat the dogpen with your mouth open.)
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To: PurVirgo
Among other options:
If a law clearly interferes with your constitutional rights, or is used beyond its constitutional grounds, or was enacted unconstitutionally, AND you can afford to pay the consequences of standing up - you will get treated to the hammer in many cases - then break the damned law, politely and peacefully and respectfully and in the course of your normal business, but publicly and flagrantly nonetheless. Serve as an example, take your lumps, make a huge stink, become a rallying point, force change.
Before you ask: yes, I do this very thing.
Or, more accurately, I try, but... that is basically meaningless as a reference: I live in a very small South Georgia town, am highly respected by the local powers in my own right, and am close kin to some of the most respected (not wealthy, mind, nor powerful: RESPECTED) private citizens around. I'd have to do something involving wanton violence to get arrested anywhere within 50 miles of home.
OTOH - when I lived in large cities I did the same. I somehow managed to never turn into a martyr for the cause. I honestly do not understand why not, but suspect that most police officers are still able to know a law-abiding citizen when they meet one.
128 posted on 09/21/2003 6:57:42 PM PDT by King Prout (people hear and do not listen, see and do not observe, speak without thought, post and not edit)
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