[pp.int.general] Resistance methods

[Jouni Snellman]

Yes! The question whether civil disobedience is legal is not really relevant
- or is it?

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:

> In
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/24/new-leader-union-alliance-of-resistance-cuts
> ,
> the leader of a main UK union made a statement that reflects both of
> the sides of the issue that people have been arguing:
>
>    Asked if he feared that co-ordinated strikes could be interpreted by the
>    courts as being political and might fall foul of the law, he said: "Do I
>    believe the law is sacrosanct? Absolutely I do not. If there are bad
>    laws not only is it right to oppose them but your duty to do so.
>
>    "[Nelson] Mandela may have taken that position over the laws of
>    apartheid and [Mahatma] Gandhi may have taken that position over the
>    laws of colonialism and imperialism, and the Suffragettes might have
>    said we do not accept the law of the land. So I do not think we should
>    get hung up in this belief certainly as trade union leaders that the law
>    is given down from Mount Sinai and we cannot challenge it."
>
>    But he added he was not going to be self-destructive: "I have got no
>    intention of playing the bosses' game of being dragged into cul-de-sacs
>    and courts, and having to be fined by courts with our members' money.
>
>    "I am not stupid. We will engage and we will fight in every way we
>    possibly can without being stupid, and without ruling anything out."
>
>
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