[Biggirl]

It may take civil disobedence to bring about change.

[xzins]

Ben Carson got laughed at the other day by Alan Colmes for saying that we should only obey duly enacted legislative law and ignore judicialized law.

I think it made perfect sense.

Having Colmes ridicule you is no shame, but Colmes is the knee-jerk, read-the-talking-points kind of liberal, so it’s always nice to explain to them. They’re not real deep thinkers.

[Reddy]

We started watching Boardwalk Empire recently. Although fiction, it portrays ordinary people ignoring Prohibition.

The ordinary people need to start ignoring Federal laws that are unconstitutional.

[Da Coyote]

I think more of the Obamathings floating in an outhouse than I think of ANY government agency...military excepted.

The are slime.

Pure, liberal scum-slime.

Hopefully, our military will remember their oath to defend the Constitution and join us for Revolution II.

[Responsibility2nd]

“Law is not always the best indication of what is good behavior. Riots in places such as Ferguson and Baltimore remind us that even cops sometimes behave badly.”

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Stossel - as always - is a freaking idiot.

[ifinnegan]

The push back will be heavy, hard and draconian.

Civil disobedience works within civil societies and peoples.

[dware]

I've said it til I'm blue in the face, and I'll keep saying it:

"Governments...derive their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed"

What does this mean? It means that we

CONSENT to a corrupt IRS by filing taxes each year.

CONSENT to a crooked financial system every time we accept or spend a greenback FRN

CONSENT to the destruction of the 2nd Amendment every time we walk into a gun store and submit to a background check.

It's time we STOP CONSENTING.

[Alex Murphy]

Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it's time for civil disobedience. Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate. Murray's suggestion -- laid out in "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission," will make some people nervous. He argues that citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful regulations, essentially ones that forbid assault, theft and fraud.

PFL

[zeestephen]

Re: “...citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful regulations...”

Great in theory.

Not so great if it’s your money or freedom that’s on the line.

The principled resistance of Christian bakers to gay marriage has resulted in closed businesses and civil lawsuits in several states.

Here in Washington state, state government is actually the lead plaintiff in one lawsuit.

[lormand]

All branches of the US government are lawless and when not breaking the law, operate in an immoral and unethical fashion. The Government is too big to redesign itself.

If they do not follow the law, why should we?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Why shouldn’t the citizens ignore the laws?

Fraudulently documented foreigners do it daily and the government wants to reward them for it.

The government ignores the laws all the time.

It’s time for the citizens to do likewise.

[nathanbedford]

John Stossel neglected to illustrate his point of view with the example of the hopelessly failed war on drugs. He might also have cited prohibition as another example of widespread scofflaw noncompliance which simply so undermined the law as to render it ludicrous. As the Poles of the Solidarity movement said about the communist regime and its failed economics, "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."

As a conservative, I am appalled by the idea that our civil society is disintegrating under our feet because elitists are passing laws from the top down which are hopelessly complex and which inevitably make criminalists of us all. Are we all pretending to obey the laws and are they pretending that we do (except when it suits them to drop the pretense)?

Rather than embrace the opening act of anarchy with widespread civil disobedience, conservatives ought first to have recourse to Article V.

[equaviator]

Something In The Air (by Thunderclap Newman)

Call out the instigators
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here

And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right

We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Lock up the streets and houses
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here

And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right

We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Hand out the arms and ammo
We’re going to blast our way through here
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here

And you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right

We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

[Steve_Seattle]

It was about 15-20 years that I started seeing the phrase "IT'S THE LAW!" appearing on posters on government walls or in public service announcements on television.

That was - I think - one of the first overt manifestations of progressive statism. I never recall seeing that slogan when I was growing up in supposedly more authoritarian times, as opposed to our - so we are told - easygoing, tolerant progressivism.

Whenever I see "IT'S THE LAW!" I imagine a Nazi sergeant lining up Jews alongside a pit, and saying, "IT'S THE LAW! Never mind about the machine guns and bulldozer."

[UCANSEE2]

[UCANSEE2]

[PGalt]

May 5, 2015 (Cinco de Marxist) RINOS in Michigan roundly DISOBEYED.

Status: Defeated

Michigan Proposal 1

Result Votes Percentage

No 1,405,716 80.07%

Yes 349,813 19.93%

http://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_Sales_Tax_Increase_for_Transportation_Amendment,_Proposal_1_(May_2015)

(state sales tax increase proposal from 6% to 7%)

See crony-socialism enablers in link.

Citizens 1
State 0

[navyguy]

The federal government violates it’s own laws every day. It also plays favorites, and picks winners and losers.

I have paid taxes for 35 years. For 2014 I paid $42,000 dollars in federal income taxes. I’m a veteran. I comply with the law.

But I’m just about at the point where I will simply ignore the federal government and any laws they pass. I simply will not comply when other, less responsible citizens are constantly given a free pass. I’ve done my part.

[Tench_Coxe]

I agree with Stossel. What he doesn't mention is that one needs to be prepared to be made an example by government to cow others into obeying. That can range from fines and asset seizures to jail and possibly even being murdered.

[RitaOK]

What???

Conservatives willing to take a risk???? Actually, RESIST?

Where would we find such conservatives???

Conservative businesses defy the Chamber of Commerce????

Where would we find those???

We live in the compliance era, after all. This is not a generation of Boston Tea Party types. We tolerate anything and everything. Hell’s bells, we FUND it! We are complicit in our own oppression, we send our kids and grandkids to indoctrination camp, willingly, no less, and wonder why our universities rule.

I mean, we’ve got keyboards and cell phones and stuff. It takes a lot of time to tend to these electronic pacifiers of ours. Keeps us out of the streets showing any resistance. It’s so much easier to sit and belt out the chorus line— all together now, “ain’t it awful”.

Shocking.

/S /S