“I read it with the strong feeling that here was something that concerned me directly…. It was the concrete, the personal element, the “here and now” of this work that won me over. Thoreau did not put forth a general proposition as such; he described and established his attitude in a specific historical-biographic situation. He addressed his reader within the very sphere of this situation common to both of them in such a way that the reader not only discovered why Thoreau acted as he did at that time but also that the reader—assuming him of course to be honest and dispassionate– would have to act in just such a way whenever the proper occasion arose, provided he was seriously engaged in fulfilling his existence as a human person. The question here is not just about one of the numerous individual cases in the struggle between a truth powerless to act and a power that has become the enemy of truth. It is really a question of the absolutely concrete demonstration of the point at which this struggle at any moment becomes man’s duty as man….”— Martin Buber, “Man’s Duty as Man” (1962)
Weld County, a county in the northern part of Colorado with a population of roughly a quarter-million people, has said ‘No’ the governor’s new lockdown rules:
“Instead, county government continues to do what it has done since March, which promotes and encourage residents and business owners to take individual responsibility and make decisions to protect themselves, their families, their community and their businesses,” the Board of Commissioners said in a statement:
“The county will not enforce a rule confining individuals to their homes for an undetermined length of time;
the county will not enforce a rule that states residents cannot have personal gatherings;
the county will not tell the school districts how to provide education to their students;
the county will not enforce a rule requiring a reduction of attendees in places of worship;
the county will not enforce a rule demanding restaurants close their indoor dining areas;
the county will not enforce any rule that forces a business to shut down or impedes their ability to operate.”
Weld County’s defiance came just days before news that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was “furious” because a Brooklyn synagogue reportedly held a secret wedding earlier this month “with thousands of unmasked guests” in attendance.
“If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law,” Cuomo said in a briefing. “It’s illegal. It was also disrespectful to the people of New York.”
Reports say the synagogue, the Yetev Lev temple in WIlliamsburg, has been fined $15,000.
In California, a saloon owner exposes Democrat’s hypocrisy, and is fighting back:
In Buffalo, New York, a protest of some 50 business owners (and supporters) at a local gym turned into a tense confrontation when a health inspector and deputies arrived (apparently after receiving an anonymous complaint) and refused to leave.
According to the Buffalo News, neither the health inspector nor the deputies would specify what rules the gym owner or those in attendance had broken. Authorities eventually left without issuing citations as protesters chanted “Get Out! Get Out!”
The gym’s owner, Robby Dinero, said the gathering was old-fashioned civil disobedience against lockdowns.
“It absolutely was a protest,” said Dinero, adding that enforcement of restrictions has been “arbitrary.”
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The Civil Rights Movement and The Woodstock Generation have grown older believing that civil disobedience is the right and duty of all citizens. The world evolves and mindsets change. Jerry Garcia even branched off and played in a group called Old and In The Way. Perhaps that is what has happened to civil disobedience. Perhaps it no longer applies or has any positive function and the concept is just old and in the way. Quite sadly America has recently watched groups like ANTIFA, The Cancel Culture and BLM using tactics that are not at all related to civil disobedience. Now we see a democrat elected president and he is already bending to their pressure and rewarding it with the nominations he is making. Their forceful tactics certainly do appear to make more of a statement to the democrat party. So why should anyone be civil if those tactics are no longer listened to ? Remember, disobey civilly and get arrested. Burn down a police station and take over a city with riots, make off with your plunder, and the democrats tell the police to leave you alone. Just how the hell can anyone be bothered anymore with civil disobedience ? It sure doesn’t make the next 4 years look too bright. The best part of it all will be them blaming the next 4 years’ problems on Trump.
“If you think illegal children should be allowed to stay here because their parents broke the law, but think white folks should be punished because of slavery 200 years ago, you may be a Democrat”.
Excuse me, but MJM did not write this comment about illegal children. If you check Wayne, you will find someone either copied my pen name, or my e mail address, or both, or somehow a mistake was simply made in naming the writer of this comment. Please fix.
Did you think you owned owned ‘MJM’?…Fool! You are a trip without LSD, bless your heart. Please fix.
LMAO ! So that’s you Blueballs !? I had an idea it was you, but I hoped for the better and that it was a publisher’s oversight in placing my pen name on the comment that wasn’t mine. Fix it ? Why should I fix it ? You’re not happy with the pen name you’d chosen ? So you copy and use mine ? Oscar Wilde (but you probably don’t like his brand of literacy) once said that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”. So I Thank You for the compliments. The more you use my name the more you compliment me you putz. So have at your genius move. I guess when you pulled your pink tutu up before you put on your waders yesterday you knew there was gonna be a real methane blast to fog your brain, huh ? Did your eyes change color ? That’s a sign of real methane ! That blast helped you summon your old friend the little schoolyard bully out again, huh ? You didn’t appreciate the bottled water you’ve been drinking so you’re gonna step on my toes and steal my sweet tea ? No surprise to me. The more you do it the less credibility you’ll have in here. All the time people will be wondering why you had a need to talk down to Scotiagirl, and to me, when you could have just accepted the fact that you did use words to beat up on a lady just for expressing her opinion, and you never should have, and you earned the crap I gave you. What a stud you are. You try to sound like a Christian, with this bless your heart crap, when you’re just talking down to me like you’re superior or some other insecurity thing. But Christians don’t do that, do they ? You can’t let it go, so now, because you don’t like the bottled water you brought to the playground you steal my sweet tea. Next it will be the dodge ball so we can’t play that any more. You’re creating a decision for the publisher because he doesn’t want to have to closely monitor who is writing what in which name, (he doesn’t need the extra work) and if everybody starts writing in using everybody else’s name you will get your schoolyard bully wish and ruin the fun and credibility of the whole(playground) platform Wayne has created. No I never thought I owned MJM, but I would think Wayne sees a reason why each person should be the only one writing in their own name. He can choose whatever he wants, and if it goes your way that mud you grew up with between your toes is just gonna slop all over the place and ruin every opinion and everything for everyone because no one will have their own opinion any more. You never learned how to let mud dry and just sweep it out ? You really are a helluva guy, aren’t you ? So I’m not the fool here Bluebelly. Besides, if you think you should be allowed to come in here and destroy my right, or anyone elses’ right to their opinion and their own free speech by pretending to be them, then YOU most certainly are a democrat. Live with yourself ! I have known an Express Marine Tugboat Captain or two in my time and they knew/know I can talk trash from here to New London just to stay awake while hauling coal all day and night, so I’m not sure you want to have at this, but I’ll do this any way you want. I prefer being a gentleman and play the game straight, which I have demonstrated time and time again, but I can also hit a spitball 440 feet over the fence, and have witnesses to testify. Whatever you want to do there Adam Schiff.
You don’t even know what ‘Bless Your Heart’ means, bless your heart! He is playing chess while you are trying to play checkers. You are a damn fool and a Yankee to boot. Go on Home!
Save your long winded diatribes. I do not care what you think of me or him or anything else for that matter.
Bless Your Little Heart!