"We got the call for trouble in the room. The gentleman, I was told, was preaching sedition. I knew that we had to take some steps quickly preventing that. Defcon is definitely for free speech, definitely for legal civil disobedience. But not anarchy, not psychopathic destruction of property. " [Emphasis mine]
Civil disobedience is, by definition, illegal. That's the whole point of it.
Civil disobedience is, by definition, illegal. That's the whole point of it.
Not always to start with. A group of people staging a sit-down isn't initially illegal (your police state may vary). Of course when ordered to move along or asked for papers please, and they don't, then it peacefully drifts over the line.
Oxymoronic Priest Quote (Score:5, Insightful)
Civil disobedience is, by definition, illegal. That's the whole point of it.
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Not always to start with. A group of people staging a sit-down isn't initially illegal (your police state may vary). Of course when ordered to move along or asked for papers please, and they don't, then it peacefully drifts over the line.
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Yes, always to start with.
A group of people staging a sit-down isn't initially illegal (your police state may vary).
Then it isn't civil disobedience yet. It's a lawful protest. Why do people insist on using the term "civil disobedience" as a synonym for "protest"?