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Originally Posted by Castout
The most effective social movement may no longer be a mass demonstration on the streets but a silent mass defiance of the system.
For example when everybody starts refusing to pay their taxes and not afraid of being thrown to jail what can the government do? jailing everyone? When people violate certain law that they disagree with in public and repeat it again and again despite whatever penalties the govt is on the weak side. The point of having law is to have a deterrence effect supposedly for the common good of society but we all know that in many countries the law has been abused to protect dictatorial regime.
Social defiance. If the disagreed law bans public gathering then do exactly that, if the disagreed law bans libel make fun of the law to humiliate the law despite whatever penalty. Don't pay the fine. Do the jail time. Repeat it all the time.
Of course the question is not whether it is possible but whether the cause is worth your time and sacrifice.
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I actually have seen small scale examples of what you mention here.When I was a sophomore in high school they decided to enforce a series of rules that dictated how males where to wear shirts.The basic rule was that you had to have your shirt tucked in all the time no matter the style or pattern of it.
At first they where able to effectively enforce the rule however they decided to change the rule so that if you wore a "school pride" shirt you could wear your shirt un-tucked(nice money making scheme)this pissed off the masses and many students began to openly violate the rule.The school then announced that any student would on site receive a referral.With in a few hours they had so many students there where so many students in line that the staff could not handle the work load so the next step was to send everyone to in school suspension that got rapidly over loaded so the next step was to hand out full school suspensions still many violated so they actually announced over the PA system that any student caught violating or that had yet to be processed was going to receive expulsion for a minor violation at this point everyone started wearing shirts un tucked.The staff was now over whelmed and had the Sheriffs office on the phone in this time span some rather upset parents had called and wondering why their kid was getting sent home on suspension for such a minor offense one parent showed up at the school witnessed the staffs plan to law enforcement over a uniform violation issue and that was the death of the tuck in shirts rule.Good thing that the parent was there as it might have actually boiled into a bad situation if cops started cuffing students though it would have been much more exciting might have made national news.
If enough people put minds to it all the gizmos are useless against the wave and some enforcers are going to change sides if they see enough of their fellow countrymen in solidarity.