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In reply to the discussion: Biden's "absolute immunity" speech: Satisfied or not? [View all]wnylib
(25,033 posts)Should the German people, their legislators, and judges, have defied the new law that abolished the presidency in Germany and made the chancellor above the law as the absolute power in Germany?
Or were they correct in abiding by the new law?
Were resistance fighters during WWII criminals who should have accepted the law of the occulying forces?
Should American abolitionists have abided by the slave laws, or were they right to defy them and help slaves escape to freedom?
Should Civil Rights activists have abided by segregationist laws, or were they right in defying them?
There are times - rare and extreme times - when defying laws is the right thing to do. I abhor lawlessness so I do not take it lightly to say that sometimes defiance is necessary. I do not believe that people should routinely choose what laws to obey and what ones to ignore. If someone chooses to defy a law, they know that there are consequences to deal with.
By the time that election day arrives in November, we will be one milimeter away from civil war and the end of democracy in the US because there will be violence from MAGAs no matter who wins. We will have to make some very difficult decisions about what we do and how we do it.
I cannot condone accepting the rule of a racist dictatorship that will allow the dehumanization of people based on ethnicity, race, politics, or gender identity.
I cannot condone executions of political opponents or imprisonment, starvation, denial of health care, and the impoverishment of "the other." Action to prevent it or to overthrow it if it takes hold is warranted, IMO.