Jacob Appelbaum in Germany

Mike Gogulski mike at gogulski.com
Thu Jan 2 19:18:28 PST 2014


On 01/03/2014 03:10 AM, Juan Garofalo wrote:
> --On Thursday, January 02, 2014 8:53 PM -0500 Ulex Europae
> <europus at 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.
I see what you're up to.

Illegitimate =? unconstitutional | unjust

As for me, I don't give a fuck about your constitutions, and in many
cases I don't care about your theories of justice either.

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