{"id":3871,"date":"2011-01-18T03:57:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T10:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2011-01-18T03:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T10:57:21","slug":"laws-worth-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/laws-worth-breaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws worth breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

So. Did you break any good laws yesterday<\/a>? Any bad ones? <\/p>\n

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<\/a> is going to break a law, let alone perform the act on schedule, just because some blogger thinks it’s a good idea.)<\/p>\n

What? You say you didn’t break<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

So here’s a little help for ya:<\/p>\n

A fine old Slate<\/i> series,<\/a> “American Lawbreaking.”<\/p>\n

Thoreau’s eternally readable essay on civil disobedience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Hemingway: “Happy New Year! Now Get Ready for All the New Laws.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Yours truly on creative disregard.<\/a><\/p>\n

Parallels between Prohibition and laws on underage drinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Big government. Small brains. Dumb laws.<\/a> (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.)<\/p>\n

Loony Laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n

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