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To: edge919

You can characterize this as civil disobedience. And what people are missing is that civil disobedience doesn’t have some magic strategy up its sleeve to escape or overcome the law; it subjects itself to it the law in the hopes that the absurdity and injustice of that outcome creates a reaction advocating its change.


102 posted on 04/22/2010 8:53:38 PM PDT by tired_old_conservative
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To: tired_old_conservative
You can characterize this as civil disobedience. And what people are missing is that civil disobedience doesn’t have some magic strategy up its sleeve to escape or overcome the law; it subjects itself to it the law in the hopes that the absurdity and injustice of that outcome creates a reaction advocating its change.

Plus, Obama would fail to pass close scrutiny and it would turn out that Lakin was fully justified in using this type of strategy to expose a fraud.

104 posted on 04/22/2010 9:14:17 PM PDT by edge919
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