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When you break into a nuclear storage or launch area that is a restricted area you are lucky if you are not killed justifiably.
That is not civil disobedieance, this is a felony and a breach of national security.
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Let's try to spin this a whole other way:
when you break into a cargo ship in a harbor and throw the contents into the sea, that is not civil disobedience, that is a felony and a breach of security.
when you are a black and sit in the white section of a bus, that is a felony and a breach of the law.
when you refuse to pay justified taxes, you are committing a crime and breaking the law, and depriving the government of revenue needed for national security.
How do those sound to you?
Most recently, the government has enacted "protest zones" which herd legal protesters out of the view of the very events that they are protesting. Leaving the protest zone is "breaking the law". The goverment could just as easily outlaw all protests, so, under your logic, no protesting at all would now be allowed, since that would be breaking the law.
A goverment like the one you apparently want to live in has a name:
<i>Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by <b>a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition</b>
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Here are some quotes back at you.
"Give me liberty or give me death."
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
--Senator Barry Goldwater
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
The cost of liberty is less than the cost of repression.
--WEB Dubois
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849