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On
Civil Disobedience
June 13, 2002
- The Denver Post
Rebuttal to an LTE published by the Post on June 6, 2002
to read the original letter - click here
| Re: "Libertarian's
action at Civic Center was anything but civil
disobedience," June 6, The Open Forum. Apparently, Ted Remington believes any law supported by the majority is necessarily just. By Remington's standard, segregation was just, and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. were wrong in fighting those laws. Remington is wrong. Libertarians know that individual rights trump majority rule and that Rosa Parks is a great hero. Rick Stanley carried a loaded gun on his hip in Denver to protest the city's disarmament ordinance, which he believes is unconstitutional and unjust. Remington compares Stanley's peaceful act to an act of murder. Remington's suggestion is absurd. The definition of "civil disobedience" is engaging in peaceful behavior to break a law one believes is unjust, in order to encourage the repeal of the law. Remington says Stanley should move to where "people don't speak English, you can't drink the water, and there are no seats on the toilets." On the contrary: people willing to go to jail to peaceably protest unjust laws deserve the highest seats of honor in our society (whether they speak English or not). ARI ARMSTRONG |
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