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Old 05-12-2012, 05:35 PM
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No argument on that BUT that it could change in your favor tomorrow is NO excuse to exceed it today. You can't do something today and justify that tomorrow, it could be legal, or is that your excuse when you get into trouble? "Yes I know today 65 in the 40 is illegal but I heard from my cousin on the board that they are thinking of changing it to 65 next month so I get a pass today."
Gandhi and crew felt they had put up with the salt tax laws long enough. If they were to meekly complied for decades upon decades, why would it change?

I'm not impressed with the idiots who break windows at Starbucks or the GAP but I believe civil disobedience has its place.
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