There are times when we have to break the law. Historically, the best example is Harriet Tubman founding and operating the underground railoroad.
When cigarette machines were legal, they wre legal for the illegal purpose of selling cigarettes to children. They were delberately placed where children could buy cigarettes unseen. They were also placed for the convenience of public smokers long after the entire mainstream scientific community had concluded definitively that chronic exposure to second hand smoke causes diseases that kill tens of thousands of non smokers per country per year. Since murder is illegal and selling cigarettes to children is illegal and bribing law writers to allow it is liiegal, was it really illegal to sabotage cigarette machines by filling the coin slots with epoxy so as to disable these machines or pouring acid into any seams or openings in the tops of these machines?
When I was prosecuted for fighting back with tear gas against a smoker who was blowing smoke in my face, the guards at the prison where they were planning to send me promised to have me gang raped when I arraived. Perhaps it was against some trivial law to take advantage of an opportunity to blackmail a state witness in order to destroy the prosecutor's case against me but what about laws against having me gang raped if I had not bkackmailed the witness?
When the law refuses to protect everyone you can't reasonably ask the unprotected to obey laws they can't live with, can you?
Hmmm...if you're breaking the law to protect someone else. It is really hard to figure out when the end justifies the means. If you break into the JRC and free those poor kids, you're doing a good thing for them, but they might end up back in the JRC plus you might end up in jail. I think a good thing to do is to get a job there and have a hidden camera with you so that you can prove that the JRC is being cruel to children. Or better yet, you can speak out against it and spread the word on how bad it is.
Hmm...while breaking them out yourself, is likely to just end up in them being put back in JRC and you in jail, just working there and getting evidence won't help - the evidence is already there, has been considered by courts, and such. Probably the best course of action will be something big and kind of edgy sort of publicity, but not going overboard (again, lots of judgment calls here, and I definitely think that any sort of stunt should be discussed within the community - I know myself that I've had lots of ideas that at the time seemed really good, but when looking back on it days or months or years later, if I had done those things it just would've made me look foolish and not helped at all).
