Jacob Appelbaum in Germany
dan at geer.org
dan at geer.org
Wed Jan 8 09:40:01 PST 2014
| 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.
A long time ago, I spent a couple of weeks in jail for
trespass (occupation of the site where the Seabrook reactor
now stands). Nearly everyone eventually pled not guilty
with a notable exception: every single Quaker pleaded guilty
on the grounds that in doing so and only in so doing did they
bear witness.
+1, in other words
--dan
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