[Libloather]

Anyone is free to civilly disobey any law which offends their conscience, and indeed are obligated to do so.

That maybe more leftist than the leftists of the 60's!

Is this crap coming around for another go?

[tpaine]

-- Anyone is free to civilly disobey any law which offends their conscience, and indeed are obligated to do so. The Nuremberg trials well established this precedence that conscience should be followed above any mere human law. Henry David Thoreau wrote a pamphlet about this very issue, --
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To: Cultural Jihad

"Anyone is free to civilly disobey any law which offends their conscience, and indeed are obligated to do so." - CJ -


That maybe more leftist than the leftists of the 60's!
Is this crap coming around for another go? - Lib -
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How clever of you 'lib'. -- You just called CJ's words "leftist".
-- Now CJ himself is a leftist, there's no doubt about that. But the line is quite true.
- We have an obligation to disobey laws which violate our inalienable rights, or our constitution. This principle is now taught to our military, because of the truths found at Nuremberg.

Obviously, it needs to be taught to you, and to many like you on FR. -- Read the article. - Try to understand the principles involved.