"They CAN'T ignore the law."

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

That's what I read on one thread today posted by a DUer frustrated over BushCo's continuing war crimes.

Can't they? In a republic governed by the rule of law, they surely couldn't. But, in what was once a republic governed by the rule of law, now a fascist state governed by an illegitimate group of self serving criminals, it would appear they can. It is our responsibility as citizens to throw criminals out of government, and when there is no longer a means by which to do this working within the system (such as free and fair elections), then by whatever means necessary. If, as a free and thinking citizenry, we choose not to accept this responsibility, then we must accept the consequence---the forfeiture of our own and our children's freedoms.

In a piece titled "Revolutionary Nonviolence," peace activist and Jesuit priest, John Dear, writes:

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good,” Gandhi said throughout his life. Just as he concluded that non-cooperation with imperial Britain was a duty for all Indians, we conclude that non-cooperation with imperial America is a duty for us. Somehow we have to withdraw our cooperation more and more from the system of war, nuclear weapons, economic hegemony, global oppression of the poor, and imperial violence. We have to help others realize that we are an occupied people, living in the belly of the empire, so they can withdraw their cooperation with the system of institutionalized injustice, what Jonathan Schell calls “total violence.”

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0602-08.htm

Revolution NOW!