Is It Time for Civil Disobedience?

obeyThe Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

― Oscar Wilde

Ridiculous laws. Oppressive regulations. Widespread government corruption. Rampant police brutality. Excessive taxation.

Abuses of personal liberty have become commonplace in America, a country once known as the “land of the free.”  

But are we partly to blame? After all, Americans have been voting for corrupt politicians for ages. Some justify this by saying they are voting for the “lesser of two evils,” but does that make sense? Isn’t that just choosing your own oppressors? By voting, are we validating a nefarious system?

Because rapacious politicians and their cronies are exploiting and plundering the masses for their own gain with no end in sight, perhaps it is time for us to take matters into our own hands.

In his piece for Reason titled Let’s All Disobey Stupid Laws, John Stossel suggests that noncompliance might be our best recourse now. He refers to a new book by Charles Murray who is a political scientist, author, and libertarian:

Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it’s time for civil disobedience. Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate.

Murray’s suggestion—laid out in By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission —will make some people nervous. He argues that citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful regulations, essentially ones that forbid assault, theft and fraud.

Stossel goes on to give examples of oppressive government policies:

While we try to invent new things, government constantly seeks new ways to control us. The number of federal crimes on the books is now 50 percent larger than back in 1980—a time when many people mistakenly thought the U.S. would cut the size of government.

Murray says, correctly, that no ordinary human being—not even a team of lawyers—can ever be sure how to obey the 810 pages of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 1,024 pages of the Affordable Care Act or 2,300 pages of Dodd-Frank.

What if we all stopped trying? The government can’t put everyone in jail. Maybe by disobeying enough stupid laws, we can persuade judges that only rules that prevent clear, real harm to individuals should be enforced: “no harm, no foul.”

Speaking of judges, another way to show we are not going to comply with unjust laws is jury nullification.

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In A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, Howard Zinn says:

“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

Truth has a power of its own. Art has a power of its own. That age-old lesson – that everything we do matters – is the meaning of the people’s struggle here in the United States and everywhere. A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think, when we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back.”

What will YOU do to help end the vicious cycle of tyranny that we are trapped in?

I’ll leave you with a quote from Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau:

I heartily accept the motto, — “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

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Contributed by Lily Dane of The Daily Sheeple.

Lily Dane is a staff writer for The Daily Sheeple. Her goal is to help people to “Wake the Flock Up!”

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10 thoughts on “Is It Time for Civil Disobedience?

  1. I wish they would call me for Jury Duty, I implore them to

    It never happens .. gee , i wonder if they know me too well?

  2. “Is It Time for Civil Disobedience?”

    Did Lily Dane (author) just crawl out from under a rock? (or did she finally decide to pry herself away from the TV screen?)

    I don’t know, Lily. Maybe we should all join hands and beg for more tyranny and murder instead.

  3. They called me for jury duty once. They won’t make that mistake again. Been almost 10 years and no call. Another list I am on.

  4. “…John Stossel suggests that noncompliance might be our best recourse now.”
    “Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate.”

    Such refusal can ONLY be accomplished at gunpoint.

    I see no mention of that.

    1. Yeah #1, I almost posted that Stossel article but, in the end, decided not to. You have to prepare for a fight, civil disobedience will get the hell beat out of you by the corporate enforcers.

  5. Even though I agree that this will take an armed conflict to solve, I believe Stossel has a point even though he used the wrong wording to make his point. He says, our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate, and the word, some, is the wrong word. It should be all. This is the task that will keep it from happening, getting, all, to stand up at the same time. If we could get all to stand up at the same time, DC would need heavy equipment to remove the high piles of crap.

  6. The people of this country will never stand together for anything. We are divided on so many lines we agree on nothing. We are like the empires of old, many peoples forced by a central power to serve one flag. Like Rome, The Soviet Union, or Austria-Hungarian empire. How many people today see themselves as something other than American first and American second if at all? African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans, the list is endless.

    Our nation has been looted by the corporations and banks. There is not much left for the citizens. Soon there will be nothing at all. Then what will your sport scores or which political party told the best lies matter? Stand up? For what? There are no rights left, just what the powers that be still let you claim to have. They can take anything from you at any time they feel like it. What can any of us do about it? I don’t say much anymore because words are meaningless against the truth, we are no better than slaves in the land our forefathers bought with blood. Our so called Freedom is just what the central gov’t/banks/corporations allow us to have.

    No one is more hopelessly enslaved than one who falsely believes he is free. That is the American people today. Monitored 24/7, with every action watched and every word spoken recorded. If there is a way back to freedom I do not see it with the dumbed down sheep that call themselves Americans today.

    1. Arizona Patriot? Like Tokyo Rose and Berlin Betty?
      Your ass might be whipped but mine ain’t. Or maybe the circle you travel in would fit inside a Cherio and you actually believe your own bullshit.
      I see a tidal wave going across this country of American nationals standing up and stepping up.
      Again, I guess you are whipped so there is nothing for you here.
      Bye.

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