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Police Evict OWS Protesters from Zuccotti Park

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Nyet11/15/2011 12:29:42 pm PST

re: #460 Talking Point Detective

There is something to be said for civil disobedience. We now look back on civil rights civil disobedience with great respect. You know, MLK and unjust laws and all that. Of course laws prohibiting blocking traffic are not unjust in the sense as laws preventing black people from voting - but the focus of OWS is laws which are certainly arguably unjust, but which cannot directly be broken? (How can you use civil disobedience to break a law that allows lobbyists to corrupt our political processes to reward inequality?)

Because shutting down a Koch-owned factory is just like protesting against segregation. Yeeehaaw.