THE TIME HAS COME TO SAY NO! NO! and NO! Civil Disobedience: Citizens Pushing Back

NO! TO OBAMACARE!
NO! TO PETTY BUREAUCRATS!
NO! TO MORE GOVERNMENT REGULATION, WASTE, SPENDING AND DEBT!

Thoreau's “Civil Disobedience” derived from the spirit of the self-reliant, independent individual of Transcendentalism. It is very much an American Philosophical movement, unknown in the collective thinking found in the administration of government today.

The time has come for us all to put a stop to this. Stop the petty bureaucrats, now too many times costumed as armed shock troops. Stop, Challenge and Boldly Refuse To Obey the terrible lies, theft and degradation in unread legislation exemplified by Obamacare. Put a Stop to the wild expansion of government intruding into every part of our lives, while it, as the same time excludes us from the treasures of Our Country that are ours. Stop spending, the wild wasteful debt is too much and must end! m/r

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. They had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community could be formed.

Civil Disobedience: Citizens Pushing Back | National Review Online

OCTOBER 16, 2013 By Kevin D. Williamson

Americans have some recourse against Obama’s shutdown theater. 

This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man, for a single man can bend it to his will.

— Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”

Democracy isn’t a machine — it’s a dance. And as much as we all admire Thomas More’s famous speech in A Man for All Seasons— “I’d give the Devil the benefit of the law, for my own safety’s sake!” — the fact is we ignore the law all the time: Sammy Hagar can’t drive 55, and I have a sneaking suspicion that many bartenders receiving cash tips do not report every last penny to the IRS. The people we elect to represent us come to believe that they are there to rule us, and we push back against being ruled, sometimes in penny-ante ways, sometimes more dramatically, as with the recent outburst of civil disobedience in Washington, D.C., where veterans and other righteously cheesed-off citizens tore down the barricades surrounding our national monuments and deposited them in front of the White House, as excellent a gesture of the American spirit as our increasingly docile nation has seen in years.

Every American has a little sedition in his soul, and this is a very good time to give it free rein.

There is a finely calibrated bargain at the heart of a republic: Citizens have a duty to obey the lawful and legitimate mandates of the government, including those with which they disagree, and the government has a duty to see to it that its actions are lawful and legitimate. The people have an obligation to be prudent and circumspect about engaging in civil disobedience, and the government has a responsibility to be scrupulous with its powers. That contract has been violated by the White House.

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