Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

It 's always more terrible than the presidency of George W. Bush has been. the Bush administration's fiscal policy, combined with fictional and unjustified war expenditures are stealing from our children and grandchildren, as the national debt threatens the entire world's monetary structure to destroy.

More anxiety than their monetary fiasco is the attack by the Bush gang for American civil liberties. The obviously unconstitutional "Patriot Act" is based on an undisputedShamefully weak and supine Congress and the judiciary. No one who has seen the Supreme Court of conspiring with Bush and Cheney in their coup, stealing the last presidential election, can do much for justice and expect the high court last best hope for preserving American ideals.

Despite my gloomy assessment, I take some hope in the remarkable fact that we recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of Walden by Henry David Thoreau. This circumstance was the causea celebration by a large group of scholars who study huge body Thoreauvian so-called man of writings. His diary runs to 22,000 pages.

For me it is not, however, previous essay Walden, who supports a cause for hope, but Thoreau, civil disobedience, a 22 page essay refusal to obey an unjust ruler, in the case of Thoreau: "The U.S. government" of its time.

A quote from the working definition is: "All men recognize the right of revolution, namely the rightand to refuse obedience to resist the government when its tyranny or
its inefficiency are great and unendurable. "

Thoreau wrote the essay, after spending a night in jail in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax, despite the fact that his friend offered to pay for it. He simply refused to pay a fee for a government that he charged unfair in his case because it is the absolute property of human beings by other human beings can support: slavery. He was aAbolitionist spoken aloud.

Thoreau's writings and public speeches is often helped the American Civil War, civil disobedience essay has certainly had a profound influence on the course of human history. Its effect has the business of the masses who do not read the work itself would have been able, because to change the great men, leaders in the Proceedings of the world, read the essay. Three of those civil disobedience as a work milestone in the development of their thought, the CountLeo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

I think it's amazing to think that a single summary statement of the moral obligation of Henry David Thoreau, a local health surveyor Massachusetts was very thin, so as to shake the world, of course. But it was not easy. Many will recall that Gandhi starve yourself on a hunger strike to oppose British rule in India, and King's passionate "I Have a Dream" speech for civil rights in the American South of the yearsixties, not long before his assassination. Lev Tolstoy's writings on the life of Russian serfs have contributed to the thinking of the future Russian leader who has led this nation from the mercy of the Tsar.

But now is now in America. We are facing a nation deeply divided again. The distribution of this time is clearly based on power and money. The Bush gang is the anchor of a financial aristocracy, who were preparing to keep all costs in the lives of our military andin our civil liberties. If he does nothing, Osama Bin Lauden America and the world will be changed forever.

Fear has used a political weapon to the basest of reasons. A new way to suppress dissent emerged: the war on terrorism. to escape to the size of such a war for me. I do not know much of what Bush and Cheney do when they spout their venom. If I am correct, there is terror in the hearts and mind of man, in this case the Americans. We are shockedand I agree that Bush and Bin Lauden and Chaney and Ashcroft and Rumsfeld in concert, we exchanged the weapons of mass destruction fear. (Although, the recent works of the great mass destruction, we have the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan did.)

Thoreau can now look over his shoulder, indicating that we have the honesty, which we assume to consider the theft of our children and their children, accept the destruction of American ideals. I thinkWe have asked not to be subjugated by fear.
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