They're upset the mayor of Boston is not tolerating civil disobedience.
Maybe its because I'm a bunny but I always thought the purpose of civil disobedience was to provoke a response from civil authorities. Unless civil authorites respond you pretty much failed.
Anyway, they then drift off to winsome dreams of Henry David Thoreau:
starroute (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-11-11 03:50 PM
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26. Make that "the state that in times past put Thoreau in jail"
It's not like things have actually changed all that much. But without that incident, we wouldn't have the concept of civil disobedience for Merino to refuse to tolerate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
On July 24 or July 25, 1846, Thoreau ran into the local tax collector, Sam Staples, who asked him to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes. Thoreau refused because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War and slavery, and he spent a night in jail because of this refusal. (The next day Thoreau was freed, against his wishes, when his aunt paid his taxes.) The experience had a strong impact on Thoreau. In January and February 1848, he delivered lectures on "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government"] explaining his tax resistance at the Concord Lyceum. Bronson Alcott attended the lecture, writing in his journal on January 26:
"Heard Thoreau's lecture before the Lyceum on the relation of the individual to the State– an admirable statement of the rights of the individual to self-government, and an attentive audience. His allusions to the Mexican War, to Mr. Hoar's expulsion from Carolina, his own imprisonment in Concord Jail for refusal to pay his tax, Mr. Hoar's payment of mine when taken to prison for a similar refusal, were all pertinent, well considered, and reasoned. I took great pleasure in this deed of Thoreau's."
Thoreau revised the lecture into an essay entitled Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience).
Hey! Wait a minute!
You're supposed to pay your taxes to prove you're a patriot who supports unionized government services or something. Think of the roads, think of the firefighters...THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Oh yeah, and then there's this:
closeupready (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-11-11 03:24 PM
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7. The very definition of fascism, to respond to peaceful protest with coercion.
Yeah, well, this isn't that. They're deliberately staging acts of civil disobedience which by definition means they aren't peaceful and law-abiding.
Lint Head (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-11-11 03:24 PM
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8. Menino told the local Fox News affiliate... Typical... Fox.
He is another wholly owned right wing fascist thug.
In Boston?
HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-11-11 03:26 PM
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9. Some Mayor clearly forgot a state hero...
Once upon a time there was this guy, from Concord, Mass. by the name of Henry David Thoreau.
[thoreau]
He wrote an essay titled Civil Disobedience, it is an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
eShirl (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-11-11 03:33 PM
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14. and it's free!
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71
Gutenberg
That Bible printing company.
And on it goes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2096806
