So. Did you break any good laws yesterday? Any bad ones?
No need to confess, of course, but it would be entertaining and instructive to see some of your more creative victimless lawbreaking in the comments section. You don’t even need to have done it yesterday. (After all, no good Freedom Outlaw is going to break a law, let alone perform the act on schedule, just because some blogger thinks it’s a good idea.)
What? You say you didn’t break any laws yesterday? Not one? Were you in a coma all day or what? Short of that, you must simply mean that you can’t think of which laws you broke yesterday.
So here’s a little help for ya:
A fine old Slate series, “American Lawbreaking.”
Thoreau’s eternally readable essay on civil disobedience.
Mark Hemingway: “Happy New Year! Now Get Ready for All the New Laws.”
Yours truly on creative disregard.
Parallels between Prohibition and laws on underage drinking.
Big government. Small brains. Dumb laws. (Note: This site has a lot of ads and popups; you won’t be bothered by them if you’re surfing with a well-armored copy of Firefox; other browsers, beware.)
All I did was aid and abet a friend who is camping in a “restricted” area. I also let my dogs run around in said area without a leash for two days this past weekend.
There must have been many thousands of active civil disobidence likers out yesterday; just about every car I saw was going faster than the “speed limit” and I’m pretty positive just about all of them were doing it intentionally.
Of course if you were to mention it to them that they were engaging in civial disobiedicene and doing anarchism they’d say “but that’s different, everyone speeds!”. I fail to see the difference.
Whether or not you broke an unjust law yesterday, you can go on record as a freedom outlaw at http://FreedomOutlaws.com/ . Post a photo, and it will appear next in line as soon as I see the email notification and approve it (PG-13 maximum please). Use your real name or an alias. Up to you.
I’d like to address your question, Claire, for it has great merit, but I lack the time. I need to lock up my unlicensed dogs in their unapproved shelter, so I can illegally drive my unlicensed self in my unregistered vehicle to my under-the-table job, after which, weather permitting, I will go work on my unpermitted house.
So I just don’t have the time to sit and think about what laws I may break today. 8^)
I didn’t go to any effort to break any different “laws” than the ones I break daily. But, I have to actually go to the big town tomorrow, so there will be lots more opportunities, I am sure. I really have trouble thinking of new “laws” to break other than the ones I already break on a regular basis. I don’t do aggression or theft, and not because they are “illegal”, but because they are wrong. I don’t smoke pot just because it doesn’t come up as an opportunity- or hasn’t in several years anyway. I’m afraid I may just keep being my boring old self.
Oh, I just thought of some “laws” I’d enjoy breaking. Maybe I’ll get to work on that even though it will probably take longer to accomplish. At least it gives me a goal.
Oh, I’m sure I’m breaking at least several laws every day. They’ve made so many laws that it’s become impossible to list if not keeping track of them.
And I don’t care.
I’m sure I must have mangled SOME law today, just can’t think of one off hand. Of course, I live in a place where almost nobody would notice… or care if they did.
A little boring… but I’ll manage. 🙂
I dunno, sometimes I wonder if just waking up and continuing to breathe is breaking some law that I have no knowledge of, out there somewhere…..
You just never know, now a days……& what creepiness they passed at those last minute sessions during the holidays that the masses are to busy to pay attention…..no matter how hard we try, we still can’t break more laws than the lawmakers do themselves…..
There are some laws I didn’t even know I was breaking.