Civil Disobedience Essay
Sometimes,
they make laws that we cannot agree on, because we think it's unfair. Civil
disobedience exists when these high people make rules that does not even make
sense or again, something that we cannot agree on. I went to this website:
http://www.forusa.org/blogs/mark-johnson/wristy-buisness-civildisobedience-elimate-change/11937.
It contains the article is part of fellowship of Conciliation website. When I
was looking at this main website, I saw the title, "Working for peace,
justice and nonviolence since 1945". The support peace, and nonviolence.
Also, they define an organization, "as an inter faith organization,
FOR-USA's mission is to organize, train, and grew diverse movement that
welcomes all people of conscience to end structures of violence and war, and
create peace through the transformative power of nonviolence." The article
is about three sociologists, an economist. Two Rabbis and a Unitarian talking
about Carbon caps and carbon taxes, distributive justice, no-growth economic
models, the enviromental consequences of war, the state of the Movement,
faith-based organizing, and monkey-wrenching. The public opinion is increasingly
aligned with scientific concerns about initiative to focus public like
politicians and religious leaders underlying moral issues has been slow to
emerge. It shows the seriousness of perception of people. It was interesting
how Mark Johnson (the author of the article) went to the front line to see
what's actually going on and get it arrested.
The article called "Philly Mom
of Two Arrested in Act of Civil Disobedience at White House." at URL:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/greenliving/Philly-mom-of-two-arrested-in-civil-disobedience-act-at-white-house.html
by Sandy Bavers. Philly.com website deals serious issues like civil wars,
protest, the environment, laborers, food, and health. It also seems to focus on
beneficial information to people. Anyways, the article is about Eileen Flanagan
getting arrested outside the White House for doing civil disobedience. She paid
hundred dollar fine to be released and she considered that the money is well
spent. Then, she promised that she will be back in D.L. along with several
hundred others from the region and perhaps 20,000 to 25,000 overall to demonstrate
against the pipeline and for action on climate hinge. It's really sad that
people fight for their lives to change, having a little piece of hope that they
can do it. Why does Civil Disobedience exist? People make decisions that we
don't appreciate so we will rage against them. Sometimes, they make silly laws
that I don't even know why they made a statement like that. If they make laws
that we can agree on, they never had to face this rage and riots to mess up
everything. I sometimes think the ones who make laws don't have common sense.
The biggest Civil Disobedience was
black rights. Martin Luther King, who was the first step to gain the black
equal rights that changed the world for African Americans by his speech. People
from the South and KKK never appreciated his as expected. They fear that
African Americans will gain power, and won't be able to control them as they
want to so they all act violence against them. Surprisingly enough, they
never arrested the white men who oppose the black equal rights. However, when
African Americans fight them back, the police beat them up, shoot them, and
arrest them. So, the “King courageous commitment to nonviolence and passive
resistance captured the attention and respect of the nation”(246). This means
that the Martin Luther takes the speech that African American don’t need to
take the violence to achieve their rights. Even now, African Americans don’t
have equal rights as much as white people do and there are still racism around
the country.
I wish that high people have much
more common sense and should really think wisely about making laws which civil
disobedience should never happen.
