--On Thursday, January 02, 2014 8:53 PM -0500 Ulex Europae <europus@gmail.com> wrote:
At 04:38 PM 12/31/2013, James A. Donald wrote:
In practice, it is pretty obvious that most practitioners of civil disobedience believe they are above the law, that they usually *are* above the law, and that in particular Swartz believed he was above the law, and was shocked to find that he was not.
You seem to be laboring under a pernicious misapprehension: that there is a legitimate mandate to obey laws that are unconstitutional and/or unjust. There is a mandate, but it is just as illegitimate as the unconstitutional or the unjust law.
..but youre implicitly asserting that people are supposed to obey 'laws' that are 'constitutional'?(whatever the fuck 'constitutional' means) this list just keeps getting better. or worse.