How will we, individually and collectively, respond to the approach of that "good night" marking the end of a great nation?
American Thinker "We should not – no, actually, we must not – show bestial rage like the animals that populated the Occupy crowd. But display civil disobedience – not violence or destruction of property or physical assaults – against the proto-fascists so favored by the Obama regime.
"Think civil disobedience would be a waste of time? It could be that you’re right. Of course, there have been people here and there throughout history who would disagree on that.
"Mahatma Gandhi would head the list, with Rosa Parks standing at his side. Our own Thomas Jefferson once said: “If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” Bishop Desmond Tutu went even farther when he said: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” And the icon of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, expressed the same sentiment when he said: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.' ”
Jim Yardley is a retired financial controller and a two-tour Vietnam veteran. He writes frequently about political idiocy, business and economic idiocy, and American cultural idiocy. Jim also blogs at http://jimyardley.wordpress.com and can be contacted directly at james.v.yardley@gmail.com.
"Think civil disobedience would be a waste of time? It could be that you’re right. Of course, there have been people here and there throughout history who would disagree on that.
"Mahatma Gandhi would head the list, with Rosa Parks standing at his side. Our own Thomas Jefferson once said: “If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” Bishop Desmond Tutu went even farther when he said: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” And the icon of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, expressed the same sentiment when he said: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.' ”
Jim Yardley is a retired financial controller and a two-tour Vietnam veteran. He writes frequently about political idiocy, business and economic idiocy, and American cultural idiocy. Jim also blogs at http://jimyardley.wordpress.com and can be contacted directly at james.v.yardley@gmail.com.
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