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Comment by nozzlegear

3 days ago

> The people "being dragged out of vehicles" have been refusing lawful orders and then being arrested for it.

"Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'" — Martin Luther King Jr.

> But no, being a citizen does not, in fact, matter if you are breaking federal law in the presence of a federal agent, and that law includes obstruction of federal justice.

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.” — Henry David Thoreau

> All of this is extremely clear in law.

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.” — Henry David Thoreau