Kampuchia Crumbs wrote:BTW, I don't remember seeing marines at the front desk area when I was at the US embassy 2 years ago, I am just assuming they are elsewhere on the grounds.

Chuck Borris wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:51 pm Society where everybody can freely own a gun, where police can shoot you for no reason

"Civil Disobedience" is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

Thoreau asserts that because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities do not also gain the virtues of wisdom and justice. The judgment of an individual's conscience is not necessarily inferior to the decisions of a political body or majority, and so "t is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.... Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."[6] He adds, "I cannot for an instant recognize as my government [that] which is the slave's government also."[7]

The government, according to Thoreau, is not just a little corrupt or unjust in the course of doing its otherwise-important work, but in fact the government is primarily an agent of corruption and injustice. Because of this, it is "not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize".[8]

In a constitutional republic like the United States, people often think that the proper response to an unjust law is to try to use the political process to change the law, but to obey and respect the law until it is changed. But if the law is itself clearly unjust, and the lawmaking process is not designed to quickly obliterate such unjust laws, then Thoreau says the law deserves no respect and it should be broken

Donald is cruel': Trump's sister Maryanne is secretly recorded by his niece Mary saying 'you can't trust him' and talking about how he had a friend take his exams to get into college

Maryanne Trump Barry, 83, slammed the president in secret recordings, obtained by the Washington Post
She made the shocking comments back in 2018 and 2019 to estranged niece Mary Trump who secretly recorded the conversation with her aunt
Maryanne blasted her brother for his 'phoniness' and called him 'cruel' over his controversial migrant policies where children were pulled from families
Maryanne said he is 'lying' in the White House and has 'no principles'
She also dismissed Trump's intelligence saying 'he doesn't read' and cited some of his only accomplishments his 'five bankruptcies'

Dunderhead wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:55 pm The politicians are not making the big decisions.