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Posted in General on Mar 13th, 2016
New World Encyclopedia definition: Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence. Based on the position that laws can be unjust, and that there are human rights that supersede such laws, civil disobedience developed in an effort […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 6th, 2012
What is civil disobedience? I ask because I’m going to be urging such a course in the times to come. Although he didn’t invent the idea, Mahatma Gandhi invented the modern term when he protested a tax on salt imposed by the British which hurt the poor Indian especially. He broke the law deliberately and […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 19th, 2011
This is the third part of a three part series on civil dissent. In the last article I discounted the possibility that any hearing into the Enbridge pipelines or tanker traffic, to and out of Kitimat and Vancouver would dare stop these projects. I considered and rejected, without saying so, any intervention by the federal […]
Posted in General on Nov 15th, 2010
It’s about time we reformed our legal system . hell, it’s been around for 1000 years or so and we still have lots of crime, don’t we? The bottom line of our system has been the presumption of innocence ignoring the reality that if you get arrested, you must be guilty. Policemen are well trained, […]
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