Certainly criminal. Wrong is an ethical judgment that is up to the individual. "Tit-for-tat" strategy tends to beat "always cooperate" strategy in simplified

Certainly criminal. Wrong is an ethical judgment that is up to the individual. "Tit-for-tat" strategy tends to beat "always cooperate" strategy in simplified social gaming models. People who always obey all laws, regardless of circumstances, are chumps who will inevitably be exploited by those who write the laws and those who selectively enforce them. In general, the law exists for the protection of everyone in society, but there exist exceptions when breaking the law is the right thing to do. Peaceful, lawful protest is no longer protecting minority voter blocs. Continuing to do it in the expectation that it will eventually work is just as insane as implementing trickle-down economic policy for the Nth time and expecting that it will benefit the middle class this time, when it failed to do so the previous N-1 times.