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After close to a decade of loudly or silently supporting Obomba's wars, the jailing of whistleblowers, the unconstitutional surveillance and other crimes, American socialists are discovering the long lost art of civil disobedience...

Their only objection to injustice is they con't like to be on the receiving end. Pathetic!

Obomba? Seriously? You are commenting on the wrong website.
Yep. HN is liberal only. If you dare to disagree with the liberal worldview you are censored, flagged, and banned.
But "Drumpf" is still okay, riiight?
Interesting, I had not realized how much today resembles the mid 19th century.
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
Which is a great attitude to take until you run into someone who's okay with having your dead body.
Killing the person you are to keep a person you're not alive for a bit and then still dying at some point seems like a really bad trade-off to me; and if all people always had thought that way, you and I would have been born chained to a wall.
The original essay is eminently readable and, in my opinion, inspirational: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71.

Under 10,000 words, funny, and insightful. It tells of a man who didn't just complain but acted on his conscience. Gandhi and MLK followed in his footsteps.

I'm glad to see that after 8 years civil disobedience is once again acceptable.