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Is this how Australian Senators behave?

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Pericles, What is your view of "lawbreakers" as it applies to either civil disobedience or out right law breaking as a form of peaceful protest, such as people like Martin Luther King Jr insighting civil disobedience Mahatma Gandhi making salt in defiance of British law, Americans not paying a tax on tea etc etc. Today these people and others are viewed as shining examples of people fighting injustice, but at the time viewed by many as trouble makers and rabble rousers who broke the law and should be locked up. there must be a line, I am a non violent person, who supports peaceful protest, and do not condone any sort of violent acts in support of an objective.
When is a terrorist a freedom fighter? Answer, when he is on your side.
p/s I'm not trying to put Jonathon Moylan in the same class as a Gandhi or a King, far from it, but it is interesting.
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:41:04 AM
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Thoreau - Civil Disobedience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_%28Thoreau%29
Posted by Poirot, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:50:27 AM
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It was a radical, unlawful act that was likely to result in harm to others. This is not what anyone would accept as civil disobedience in a free and democratic country.

A personal gesture that might mildly inconvenience other innocent parties in the process but not through deliberate intent is another matter entirely.
Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:33:47 AM
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