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A Drug War Mutiny
Brian Martinez on civil disobedience, and the jurors that stood up for common sense against the state.
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"What is a mutiny? A rebellion against authority." ~ Brian Martinez
To be more precise, Brian, it is "a refusal by a group to accept someone’s authority"[1].
And, with that, we find ourselves, once again, believing that some "group" will magically make things right for us, instead of taking "individual" responsibility.
″Power [i.e. authority] rests on nothing other than people's consent to submit, and each person who refuses to submit to tyranny reduces it by one two-hundred-and-fifty-millionth, whereas each who compromises [with it] only increases it.″ ~ Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky
I do not consent!
[1] Macmillan Dictionary