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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: epicure who wrote (63440)10/23/2002 6:24:12 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
From my time in the civil rights movement I thought quite a lot about civil disobedience, in which I did participate. One of the firm principles I came down to was that civil disobedience had to be open and public, and that acceptance of the consequences was an integral necessity of civil disobedience. Otherwise, it wasn't principled civil disobedience, but simply criminal acts with a purportedly good motive. It was when the jails started to fill with people who openly and publicly refused to comply with unjust laws and insisted on accepting the consequences that change came about. The interesting thing to me was that in those towns where those engaging in civil disobedience weren't arrested, and didn't insist on being arrested, but were simply moved on and allowed themselves to be moved on (some of those people said that they felt their point had been made by the disobedience and that going to jail would solve nothing), that change was far less likely to happen.

Of course, I was young then, and without a family. I'm not sure I would have the same ability to engage in that form of civil disobedience today -- too many other lives relying on my ability to remain free and produce income. We become slaves of our possessions and our families. That's why, I think, almost all effective freedom movements are fueled by the young.
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