Examples Of Civil Disobedience

Society doesn’t function like a robot that must abide to the commands of the controller. A society functions on the ideas of what a majority of people wish to live upon where then a leader emerges from the people and applies the ideas of the society into a formulaic system that allows the people to flourish. Whenever the standards of the leader aren’t met by the society, it creates dispute causing many people to use the means of protest and rebellion to deliver the message to the leader. Howard Zinn once said,” Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Whenever a ruler doesn’t abide to the necessities of their people and begins to order around the people like a herd of sheep, is the time when

A key thought that stays in mind while reading Thoreau’s piece is the,” government is best which governs least.” Egypt, a country in the Middle East, has been around for a while and the idea of the country having the same president (Hosni Mubarak) oppressing his people for thirty years is jaw-dropping. Do the people of Egypt really love this tyrannical president so much? Of course not. According to the Freedom House, a majority of the people weren’t allowed to vote who should be the ruler of Egypt during this thirty year time period and those who were allowed to vote were poor compelled by the state, bribed, as well as threatened of being taken to jail. Not only is this striking but a group by the name of The Muslim Brotherhood were not allowed to live in Egypt, and if you associate with this group consequences such as being sent to prison or even

The country has been run by the a president from the same family for 40 years which implies to us there must be something wrong with the way the voting works in Syria. Around February 2011, a group of boys (ages 10-15) were inspired to spray paint on a wall there sign of rebellion to oppose this long reign from the totalitarian regime and were hopeful for change. These kids were arrested by the police, and were taken in to be beaten by those who work for the regime (Global Post). The news of these kids had inspired the whole country to break out into protests demanding reforms and justice. This had not been the first case of injustice that was committed by the Syrian regime, for the people of Syria had been too scared to start an uprising because most had believed nobody would go up against the government after witnessing events such as the mass massacre in the city of Hamma in 1982 and multiple similar events. A vast number of Syrians have been sent to jail or executed for believing certain ideas because the government enforces the people to conform to the beliefs of the regime. The decision for the Syrian people to rise up against the injustices of the Syrian government is when civil disobedience should take effect in society. Thoreau mentions in his piece,” If the injustice is part for the necessary friction of the machine of