Re: Gasp! For broadcast media, patriotism pays

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

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From: "Sven Franklyn Weil" <sven@gordsven.com>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Gasp! For broadcast media, patriotism pays

> Yesterday morning a few hundred people got arrested after lying down on
> 5th Avenue in front of Rockefeller Center here in New York City.
>
> There was no mention in the media of a riot or "civil unrest."  So then
> yes they were arrested for protesting peacefully, even though they were
> blocking traffic....

Should people be able to block city streets and keep their fellow citizens
from going about their business?

> No, they're being prosecuted for practising "civil disobedience."

WRONG!  Civil disobediance is the refusal to follow an unust law, i.e.,
refusing to move to the back of the bus, refusing to get up from a
segregated lunch counter, or even refusing to submit to the draft.  Unless
the protestors are protesting unjust traffic laws, they are not engaging in
civil disobediance.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine