[clue-talk] The War On...?

[Don Collier]

I never said that we should not question our leaders, and I never said 
that we should just give in to every law.  What I did say is that we 
have to obey those laws that we feel are unjust while we do what we can 
to get those laws changed. 

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:56:50PM -0700, Don Collier wrote the following:
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>>In my opinion, every American has a duty to obey the law now matter how 
>>unjust that we feel it is.  There are ways to make your voice heard 
>>other than breaking the law.  We cant pick and choose which laws that we 
>>wish to obey.
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>>When you find those documents I would be interested in reading them.
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>Read a history book, then. The American Revolutionary war started as Civil
>Disobedience. Thomas Jefferson and others have wrote on the subject of Civil
>Disobedience as being not only a right, but a duty. Without it we would have
>not had, as previously mentioned, the American War for Independence, the
>Civil Rights Movement, or anything else that has mattered in our country. To
>just accept and give into every law, especially unjust ones, and not
>question our politicians and make them accountable (through voting your
>conscience, not for the "lesser" of evils), not take to court our government
>in defense of our Liberty, makes us a slave to the State just a little bit
>more each time,  and when we are all fully Slaves, no man shall be Free
>again.
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