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Question: Does Civil Disobedience Work?
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| May 17, 2007
| A Navy Vet
Posted on 05/17/2007 11:13:16 AM PDT by A Navy Vet
The liberals have used "civil disobedience" for decades. It has worked on occassion. Do you think such actions are right or wrong?
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KEYWORDS: civil; disobedience; liberal; protests
To: A Navy Vet
It goes back a bit more than decades. And I would hardly call Thoreau a liberal.
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:14:33 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
"It goes back a bit more than decades. And I would hardly call Thoreau a liberal."
Of course. I was wondering if it is a correct way of redress against perceived governmental abuse.
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:16:59 AM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(In perpetuum sacramentum)
To: A Navy Vet
They are wrong, but kudos to those who use the technique and don’t complain when the civil authority slams the cell door. If there is any complaint by those arrested or shot it is not civil disobedience.
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:17:43 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: A Navy Vet
I refuse to answer your question until there is more economic justice in the world.
To: A Navy Vet
Well, it worked in Boston harbor, and it seems to be working on the illegal immigration front. You decide.
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:18:46 AM PDT
by
Lokibob
(Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
To: A Navy Vet
The liberals have used "civil disobedience" for decades. It has worked on occassion. Do you think such actions are right or wrong?Civil disobediance and especially non-violence only works when the targeted government or entity gives a damn what other countries or its own citizens think of it.
Inside totalitarian states, it doesn't do much at all, other than give the police something to do.
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:20:28 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
To: Question Liberal Authority
I refuse to answer it until they free Paris!
What happened in Boston Harbor was not civil disobedience, it was rebellion -- or revolution. Civil disobedience objects to one thing or cluster of things the government has done, but does not otherwise seek to attack the government. Civilly disobedient people go to jail and pay their fines.
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Those Christians - how they HATE one another!)
To: Question Liberal Authority
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posted on
05/17/2007 11:57:38 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(This tagline brought to you by courtesy of Happygrl)
To: A Navy Vet
I don’t know if civil disobedience really works or not, but I know it gives us lots of funny ‘caption this’ threads here on FR when the moonbats gather.
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posted on
05/17/2007 12:24:37 PM PDT
by
Theresawithanh
(You are my tagline, my only tagline, you make me happy when skies are gray...)
To: Theresawithanh
"... but I know it gives us lots of funny ‘caption this’ threads here on FR when the moonbats gather.
Okay, "caption this"...[insert funny stupid cartoons here].
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posted on
05/17/2007 2:06:26 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(In perpetuum sacramentum)
To: Question Liberal Authority
"I refuse to answer your question until there is more economic justice in the world."
Thanks so much for your communist view-point.
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posted on
05/17/2007 2:08:58 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(In perpetuum sacramentum)
To: Lokibob
"Well, it worked in Boston harbor, and it seems to be working on the illegal immigration front. You decide."
Well, that's the whole problem.
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posted on
05/17/2007 2:10:35 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(In perpetuum sacramentum)
To: A Navy Vet
Only when those in power allow it to.
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