I interpreted Chomsky's comment more as `it’s an attack on my liberty [for the government to have the authority] to make me stop at a red light.' not `it’s an

I interpreted Chomsky's comment more as `it’s an attack on my liberty [for the government to have the authority] to make me stop at a red light.' not `it’s an attack on my liberty to make me stop at a red light [no matter the circumstances].' Though, oddly, your example was a stop sign .. and doing a rolling stop at a stop sign is probably the most common illegal action people do. I see nothing here that suggests Chomsky is promoting blind obedience. We know from his own history he was prepared to go to jail as a result of his anti-war civil disobedience. Surely that's the direct analogy. The state currently has the power to compel vaccination (Jacobson v. Massachusetts). If you have a principled objection to that law, then like every other action of civil disobedience (MLK, Megan Ric, and many more) be prepared to be removed from society. Who knows, your action might even cause the law to be removed. (To be clear, Chomsky is not asking for the government to assert this power, but rather for the unvaccinated to voluntarily withdraw from society, though this may change if COVID becomes something more like smallpox.)