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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience [video]

85 points by ljiljana 10y ago

Proven 10y ago
After close to a decade of loudly or silently supporting Obomba's wars, the jailing of whistleblowers, the unconstitutional surveillance and other crimes, American socialists are discovering the long lost art of civil disobedience... Their only objection to injustice is they con't like to be on the receiving end. Pathetic!
- sg47 10y ago
  Obomba? Seriously? You are commenting on the wrong website.
  - jrcii 10y ago
    Yep. HN is liberal only. If you dare to disagree with the liberal worldview you are censored, flagged, and banned.
  - thilmo 10y ago
    But "Drumpf" is still okay, riiight?
shinski 10y ago
Interesting, I had not realized how much today resembles the mid 19th century.
SmokyBourbon 10y ago
Where the hell was everyone for the last 8 years? The last administration murdered an, innocent 16-year-old child and said he should have "had a more responsible father" even though the kid hadn't seen his terrorist father in years. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-tea...
yarou 10y ago
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
- gozur88 10y ago
  Which is a great attitude to take until you run into someone who's okay with having your dead body.
  - drinkjuice 10y ago
    Killing the person you are to keep a person you're not alive for a bit and then still dying at some point seems like a really bad trade-off to me; and if all people always had thought that way, you and I would have been born chained to a wall.
spodek 10y ago
The original essay is eminently readable and, in my opinion, inspirational: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71. Under 10,000 words, funny, and insightful. It tells of a man who didn't just complain but acted on his conscience. Gandhi and MLK followed in his footsteps.
lichform 10y ago
I'm glad to see that after 8 years civil disobedience is once again acceptable.

85 points by ljiljana 10y ago

After close to a decade of loudly or silently supporting Obomba's wars, the jailing of whistleblowers, the unconstitutional surveillance and other crimes, American socialists are discovering the long lost art of civil disobedience... Their only objection to injustice is they con't like to be on the receiving end. Pathetic!

sg47 10y ago
Obomba? Seriously? You are commenting on the wrong website.
- jrcii 10y ago
  Yep. HN is liberal only. If you dare to disagree with the liberal worldview you are censored, flagged, and banned.
- thilmo 10y ago
  But "Drumpf" is still okay, riiight?

shinski 10y ago

Interesting, I had not realized how much today resembles the mid 19th century.

SmokyBourbon 10y ago

Where the hell was everyone for the last 8 years? The last administration murdered an, innocent 16-year-old child and said he should have "had a more responsible father" even though the kid hadn't seen his terrorist father in years. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-tea...

yarou 10y ago

"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."

gozur88 10y ago
Which is a great attitude to take until you run into someone who's okay with having your dead body.
- drinkjuice 10y ago
  Killing the person you are to keep a person you're not alive for a bit and then still dying at some point seems like a really bad trade-off to me; and if all people always had thought that way, you and I would have been born chained to a wall.

spodek 10y ago

The original essay is eminently readable and, in my opinion, inspirational: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71. Under 10,000 words, funny, and insightful. It tells of a man who didn't just complain but acted on his conscience. Gandhi and MLK followed in his footsteps.

lichform 10y ago

I'm glad to see that after 8 years civil disobedience is once again acceptable.