I have to read Resistance to Civil Government (commonly known as Civil Disobedience) by Henry David Thoreau for one of my classes and I never realized how kick ass he was until now. I highly suggest checking out even though it is sort of long.
"[When] a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjugated to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact, that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army."
As I read this quote, it came to mind that Thoreau is high credited in American public consciousness and he legitimizes the case for Iraqi resistance. It's a total up yours to any right winger who has a problem with the Iraqi people defending their civil rights. Man it sucks how we cannot learn from our historical mistakes of the past.
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Yeah, Thoreau was a real badass. He spent some jail time because he refused to pay taxes to a government engaged in what he saw as an unjust war of imperial expansion (the Mexican-American war) and because of slavery, but in the end his aunt payed for him.
To see this event in comic form, check out this website: http://katebeaton.com/Site/Welcome.html and scroll down to the comic called "I Am Trying To Be Noble Here"
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