re: 99% wrong ---> judgement ---> 0.01% wrong this is also how 'masters of the drug war' convict entire generations to subservience and obeyance via mass surveillance, a threat of pending prosecution by the very people who engineered the war of drugs against their own populations to gain total power via cutting off, neutralizing generations below them and using a false and unreal ethical framework to then judge and prosecute political enemies lists thus solidifying the ruling dictatorship, OOSOOM (i.e. drug lord determines drug user bad for society if they challenge authority, use legal rights, etc) On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:38 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> 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.
There might be some sincere practitioners of civil disobedience, but Swartz was not, and the big heroes of the civil disobedience brigade, Ghandi and Thoreau, were not.