Brian’s Prospective

I have found some sources over this weekend which I can describe with one word, unbelieveable.  As I am reading some of these sources, it reminds me of modern organized crime involving the distribution of marijuana and cocaine.  One source that I have reached was titled “Is it right to break unjust laws?” by Benjamin F. Sager in the Feb. 27 issue of Forum.  He argued that the citizen is above the law and many great things in history, especially in western civilization, have resulted from going against the law.  Such instances that were referenced was Martin Luther’s nailing of the 95 Theses on the Wittenburg Church, the foundation of America from the tyrannical British Empire.  He concluded that to be American.

“We have a right to exclude a Chinese piety that commands our children to worship the ancestral tablets of a literal Genesis.  We have a right to refuse the Mohammedan dogma on intoxicating liquor.  We have a right to keep free from entangling alliances with Sabbatarian orthodoxy and smokeless theocracy.” 

This brings to me an insight toward the thought of opposing this kind of law and would believe that the suppliment of alcohol, legal or not, would be justified.  Sager said that unjust laws and moral based laws were made to protect society from evil-doers but they hurt the innocent people who come home from work and have a beer or a glass of wine.  I would not believe that he would condone the murderous acts of Al Capone such as the St. Valentine’s day Massacre and the ousting of police officers, but I believe that he would say that people like Capone are a natural reaction to bad laws and bad laws only give profits to those like Capone who would or would not use evil means of organizing the black market of illegal alcohol.