Civil disobedience works. It's powerful but it's hard to do. Discipline absolute must.
When a cause is right, and you disobey unjust rules to make a statement without harming others, then you can sway opinions in your favor.
Counters their narrative that we are the troublemakers in society. And now, if Jan 20 happens like it's shaping up to be, then civil disobedience is very clearly a moment of 'speaking truth to power'.
Worked for MLK, worked for India independence via Gandhi, and it can work here.
Fully concur. We cannot just be obedient, doesnt mean violence, but we need to start really looking at civil disobedience in a positive light. Will take some time for our side, we were tricked into the idea that law and order were real.
I think the "I'm Spartacus" response to authorities asking neighbors to snitch on each other for family gatherings is a place to start.
The mask issue is prone to starting unneeded physical confrontation in some places. Best avoid that as a hill to die on - there are bigger fish to fry.
How about nursing home visits? How do you stop 200 or 500 people from a congregation who are really REALLY persistent about wanting to visit with one of their brethren?
Are quarantines being applied selectively? Organize a massive caravan to go across state lines and finish out in a block party. Hell, a ballsy CA pastor rebranded his church a strip club so he could reopen. You can, too: get your whole chamber of commerce / roster of town businesses to apply for state liquor licenses. Essential business.
What if vaccination really did become a requirement for plane travel? Fun to mess with. Forge the paperwork and spread it far and wide - and put a star of david stamp on it to underscore how egregiously that violates basic human dignity - especially when many on the left side of the aisle swore they wouldn't get a vaccine for it even if it were offered to them.
Large indoor gatherings are verboten, right? Well what if you turn a concert hall or other big venue into a soup kitchen, or a job fair, or a free clinic for a day? Who's gonna book a reverend for that?
Goog says there's 697k law enforcement officers in the states today. Well. If they prosecute a b.s. law and the average number of people at a Trump livestream these days makes a public display of civil disobedience, it'd tie up the justice system pretty quick.
Someone else mentioned a world strike for a day. I like that one.
Civil disobedience works. It's powerful but it's hard to do. Discipline absolute must.
When a cause is right, and you disobey unjust rules to make a statement without harming others, then you can sway opinions in your favor.
Counters their narrative that we are the troublemakers in society. And now, if Jan 20 happens like it's shaping up to be, then civil disobedience is very clearly a moment of 'speaking truth to power'.
Worked for MLK, worked for India independence via Gandhi, and it can work here.
Fully concur. We cannot just be obedient, doesnt mean violence, but we need to start really looking at civil disobedience in a positive light. Will take some time for our side, we were tricked into the idea that law and order were real.
I think the "I'm Spartacus" response to authorities asking neighbors to snitch on each other for family gatherings is a place to start.
The mask issue is prone to starting unneeded physical confrontation in some places. Best avoid that as a hill to die on - there are bigger fish to fry.
How about nursing home visits? How do you stop 200 or 500 people from a congregation who are really REALLY persistent about wanting to visit with one of their brethren?
Are quarantines being applied selectively? Organize a massive caravan to go across state lines and finish out in a block party. Hell, a ballsy CA pastor rebranded his church a strip club so he could reopen. You can, too: get your whole chamber of commerce / roster of town businesses to apply for state liquor licenses. Essential business.
What if vaccination really did become a requirement for plane travel? Fun to mess with. Forge the paperwork and spread it far and wide - and put a star of david stamp on it to underscore how egregiously that violates basic human dignity - especially when many on the left side of the aisle swore they wouldn't get a vaccine for it even if it were offered to them.
Large indoor gatherings are verboten, right? Well what if you turn a concert hall or other big venue into a soup kitchen, or a job fair, or a free clinic for a day? Who's gonna book a reverend for that?
Goog says there's 697k law enforcement officers in the states today. Well. If they prosecute a b.s. law and the average number of people at a Trump livestream these days makes a public display of civil disobedience, it'd tie up the justice system pretty quick.
Someone else mentioned a world strike for a day. I like that one.
The system works only by consent.