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A Tumblr post by user "cock-holliday":
I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.
Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.
People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.
Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.
People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.
You know, I made an argument like this once, and some dumbass came in with
"WeLl i gUeSs wE ShOuLd jUsT StArT MuRdErInG PeOpLe hUh iF LaWs dOn't mAtTeR."
Completely missing the point.
I don't think you're a dumbass but I do think you're missing the point. These kinds of discussions aren't meant as a "no rules hehehe" movement, they're meant as a "there's a ridiculous systemic framework that is wildly outdated and it's only getting worse, with bad actors using it to pass horrible laws. We should get comfortable with resisting these laws using good reasoning"
What if every single person in the US suddenly started blocking ice from entering any buildings? There would be nothing, not a damn thing, that any executive order could do about it. We outnumber the lawmakers and thus it's up to us to keep their power in check.
That's what this is about, using little examples like this to get this idea of you do not have to follow ridiculous, dangerous laws into the public consciousness.