breaking the law!

There are many cases in which I would endorse civil disobedience and most of my examples are similar to those that Ghandi and Martin Luther King used. Any law that targets or harms certain groups of people based on sex, religion, race, economic status, etc. I would believe to be unjust. Slavery is a great example. It targeted blacks and allowed the physical abuse of them. It was/is painfully obvious that legal slavery is unjust.

I would agree with St. Augustine who said "an unjust law is no law at all" because I believe laws should be fair, and hence, "just". So, if a law is not fair, or unjust, it can't exist as a law.

I believe the laws that the US is passing that allows the government to intrude on its citizens' privacy under the veil of "security" can develop into an unjust law. I believe that we are entitled to a certain level of privacy. If the government began to intrude on our privacy and began a witch hunt that targeted Muslims and they began to lose their civil liberties, then i would advocate the use of Civil Disobedience.