On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Please listen to Henry David Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" here:

[link to librivox.org]

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.

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You will note: Thoreau believed that the people should avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable government to make them agents of injustice.

For those of you in Rio Linda, this means: If you sit on your ass while your government commits crime then you will be held accountable for their crimes because you sat your lazy ass on the couch while they started World War 3.

WAKE UP!