Comments on: Going on the offensive

By: mike

mike — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:24:06 +0000

I think the idea of legal civil disobediance is vastly underrated today. The only suggestion I’ve ever seen is to send the government $1 too much with your income tax. How about some others? I’ll start the ball rolling…

1. Buy a large spam list and use it to send a spam mail with words like “rocket launcher” and “jihad”, preferably in arabic.

2. Deposit $10,000 in a checking account, withdraw it. Redeposit it. Repeat until the FBI shows up.

Any others?

By: Dale Amon

Dale Amon — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 22:04:27 +0000

If anything prisons were probably worse back then, and quite a few on the Left got to visit them. Quite a few were beaten rather badly before they even got to the court room. It was a different time back then.

I don’t know about those of you on the Right, but I expect those of us on the Up (Libertarian) probably do not have to worry about the sort of treatment that was once meted out to the Left. Some things are a bit more civilized today than they once were. The Whole World Was Watching and they just don’t do that so much any more. Well, at least outside of LA they don’t…

By: Paul Marks

Paul Marks — Sun, 01 Dec 2002 17:23:04 +0000

Of course, if someone “on the right” tried the tactics of the “Chicago 7″ in a courtroom they would find themselves flung into jail for contempt of court (remember the modern prison system is bad for your backside).

It used to be said of the left that although they opposed liberty generally at least they supported freedom of speech – in these days of “hate speech” regulations and and campaign finance rules the First Amendment has gone the way of the rest of the Constitution.