<p>In 1964 in the U.S., Barry Goldwater used the excuse that "crime has risen in the south" as a platform for why the GOP should be elected across the board. The "crime" that had risen and that the GOP had vowed to suppress was that of the civil rights movement protesting their horrid conditions under Jim Crow using many methods of civil disobedience while ALSO having a political-legal arm of their movement in which to talk with government officials about peaceful solutions towards change.</p>
<p>If we do not support civil disobedience as a means to force change upon a rigid society that treats its citizens unjustly at times, then I believe we don't understand the full definition of what it is to be a democratic society.</p>
<p>Sometimes, ya gotta move off the sidewalk and into the streets...but don't take MY word for it:</p>
<p>"Letter From Birmingham Jail" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html">http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html</a></p>
<p>Jay Emerson<br>
Operations Officer<br>
United States Pirate Party<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2010 6:51 AM, "Radosław Nadstawny" <<a href="mailto:radoslaw.nadstawny@o2.pl">radoslaw.nadstawny@o2.pl</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>