Rights Violation or a Complete Jerk?

[Taem]

If more people did this, these little ventures in to our own personal private space and our rights would not be trampled on. It is because people have become quiet and docile that these tactics continue to grow and gain frequency.

And it most certainly is not laughable at all. Civil disobedience is a perfectly acceptable form of protest and should be encouraged... And if enough people turn a molehill in to a mountain, certain folks would see that it is no longer a good idea to make the molehills in the first place.

Tell me, are you happy with a bunch of little molehills in your life? You let down your guard and accept just one... But that one soon gets company. And in no time at all, you have a bunch of little molehills and no level ground.

When enough people turn those molehills in to mountains, the balance will have to come along to level everything out. The molehills are an annoyance, but a mountain is an eyesore and much harder to ignore. For change to happen, you must cause the sort of problem that people can not ignore.

Doc is right, but to a degree. You see, without demonstrators and civil disobedience in the US, blacks would still be in slavery, women would not have any rights, and quite possibly we would all have bar-codes on our forearms as part of the patriot act. However, on the other side of the coin, civil disobedience often leads to crime and unwarranted riots, such as the L.A. riots and more globally, riots that often happen after soccer games. So how do you know when "enough is enough?" I think that is the real issue, if this man went 'too far' to demonstrate his rights. I don't think so, but he could have done it without so much contempt in his actions, which probably could have avoided him being arrested' his contempt for the law is what went too far in my opinion, but he was right to question the authority of the store manager.