{"id":2879,"date":"2020-06-06T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-called-civil-disobedience-for-a-reason\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T02:31:00","slug":"its-called-civil-disobedience-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-called-civil-disobedience-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s called civil disobedience for a reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It\u2019s called civil disobedience for a reason<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Many protesters \u2014 and their supporters in City Hall and the media<\/a> \u2014 are angry that the police have used force to break up protests that are violating the law even though they\u2019re peaceful.<\/p>\n

These people don\u2019t understand the meaning or purpose of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n

For several nights of looting and mayhem, New Yorkers cowered in their homes while their neighborhoods were pillaged. Anarchist thugs and common thieves ran wild. Mayor\u00a0de Blasio finally set an early curfew, and gave the NYPD the power to enforce it.<\/p>\n

The rule was clear: Protests could continue until early evening, but then people had to go home. The last few nights, police began to enforce the curfew, blocking bridges, clearing streets and making arrests.<\/p>\n

Criticism of the mayor has been savage.<\/p>\n

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams has slammed the cops and the mayor for using force against \u201cnonviolent protestors\u201d who march down the middle of the street chanting, \u201cWe are peaceful, what are you?\u201d to the cops who block them, order them to disperse, and then disperse them.<\/p>\n

City Comptroller Scott Stringer, playing to the cheap seats as he gears up his mayoral run, tweeted, \u201cThe penalty for protesting after curfew is not to be beaten senseless by the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilman Ritchie Torres of The Bronx, who may be headed to Congress soon, tweeted, \u201cCurfew or no curfew, New Yorkers have a constitutional right to protest.\u201d<\/p>\n

He may need to brush up on what the Constitution protects and what it doesn\u2019t protect.<\/p>\n

The First Amendment protects our freedom of speech and assembly and, yes, protest. But that doesn\u2019t mean you are allowed to sit in traffic, or occupy a politician\u2019s office, or chain yourself to a police car, even though none of those activities is violent, and even if you are doing them in the name of a cause. You will be arrested anyway.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the point of civil disobedience. If you believe a law is unjust, you can intentionally break it to call attention to its injustice. But civil disobedience only means anything if you are also willing, like Martin Luther King Jr., to accept being arrested and punished for breaking the law. Otherwise you are just throwing a tantrum.<\/p>\n

The point of protesting is to demonstrate your willingness to sacrifice your own safety and security for a cause you believe is greater than yourself. Acting surprised when the people in power decide they don\u2019t want protesters to conduct spontaneous, unpermitted parades in the middle of the street day after day, and into the night, is naive to the extreme.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also unbearably sentimental, in the sense of wanting something for nothing. Protesting is not a state of sanctuary, nor does it exempt you from the law.<\/p>\n

Socrates, Thoreau, Gandhi, and King all understood that protest only has meaning if you accept the consequences.<\/p>\n

Oddly, de Blasio \u2014 a veteran protester himself \u2014 is the only one who seems to understand the nature of civil disobedience and the fact that something can be simultaneously \u201cpeaceful\u201d and disruptive and against the law.<\/p>\n

The mayor is getting a lot of heat for authorizing the cops to keep the protests from getting out of control when the sun goes down. But he should have done so sooner. And he deserves some credit for pushing back on the absurd idea that \u201cpeaceful protest\u201d justifies unlimited freedom to disrupt life for the rest of us.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“It\u2019s called civil disobedience for a reason” Many protesters \u2014 and their supporters in City Hall and the media \u2014 are angry that the police have used force to break up protests that are violating the law even though they\u2019re peaceful. These people don\u2019t understand the meaning or purpose of civil disobedience. For several nights…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5192],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-its-called-civil-disobedience-for-a-reason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}