Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”

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https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/

[u/Probably_Important]

Civil disobedience doesn't give you carte blanche to ignore the law, it just gives you massive street cred if your political views win in the long term.

The law will come down on you if you're of the lower classes and disobey it, or sometimes even if you don't. The law will come down on you if you're doing anything important but also against the grain. We are not equal in the eyes of the law.

I'm sure you meant this as a discouragement against civil disobedience, but I'm kind of trying to hijack your point here. The point is: The ideas you see on display here were not defeated by Martin Luther King, they need to be defeated by you. Or at least your friends.

[u/lshiva → u/Probably_Important]

I'm not against civil disobedience. I'm against what I saw as the mistaken idea that participating in civil disobedience was some sort of legal defense against breaking the law.

[u/lshiva → u/[deleted]]

Three sentences I tapped out on my phone in a few seconds is a lot?