{"id":556,"date":"2006-01-25T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2006-01-25T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T10:15:46","slug":"a-very-civil-civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/a-very-civil-civil-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Civil Civil Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Do Yo Do When The American Attorney General pays a visit to your Law School? Turn your back on him as he starts to speak, and watch as black hooded colleauges walk in with a simple message from history.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img src='http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/images\/civil_civil_disobedience.jpg' alt='' \" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re a law student, they tell you if say that if you can&#8217;t argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can&#8217;t argue the facts, argue the law. If you can&#8217;t argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue&#8230; to say over and over again &#8220;it&#8217;s lawful&#8221;, and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say it often enough.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, I&#8217;m proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Panel Member David Cole, Georgetown University Law Professor <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/insomnia.livejournal.com\/652389.html?nc=2&#038;style=mine\">Insomnia&#8217;s Live Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Do Yo Do When The American Attorney General pays a visit to your Law School? Turn your back on him as he starts to speak, and watch as black hooded colleauges walk in with a simple message from history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}