The Time to Act is Now

A political science major at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, Olivia Rondeau tells us that Non-Compliance With Tyrannical Laws and Leaders Is American As Apple Pie. Rondeau takes us through a brief history of civil disobedience from Thoreau to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. More importantly, she points out the case for the morality of civil disobedience. And the moral case goes back to the Biblical book of Acts, Chapter 4, and specifically 4:19 and 20. If you find yourself having to choose between obeying either man or God, you have no choice but to obey God.

Our rights, remember, come from God.  You can test this for yourself by observing the nature of people.  People are alive, and unless killed, will live until God himself decides to end that life.  People have the power of speech, and left to themselves, this power is freely exercised.  People naturally have liberty, can move about, and see to their livelihood, take such actions as to defend themselves and their families.  The tyrannical acts of the British government against the rights of the colonists is what sparked the Declaration of Independence. 

Thoreau makes the point that our natural rights are constantly threatened by government overreach, and it is up to us to stand up and protect them.

Not only is it moral to disobey laws that infringe on individual rights, it is morally necessary. Jim Crow segregation ended because people broke the law. Chattel slavery ended because people broke the law. So, for modern forms of government tyranny, such as medical mandates, it is clear that non-compliance is necessary to successfully fight back, despite the dangers that naturally accompany such a response.

At American Colors, Alexander Solzhenitsyn muses on how civil disobedience might have changed the lives of himself and his fellow Soviet subjects:

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Make no mistake, that Biden and those around him mean to do to us what the Soviets did to Russians. The time to act is now.