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...better to be afraid of unjust laws than to fear lawbreakers? We enthusiastically support Polish civil disobedience, yet we require of our civil servants totalitarian-like oaths that are illegal in the private sector...
There can be little doubt that the Oedipal stirrings of many American patriots contributed to their willingness to revolt. The four men Shaw portrays were hardly unique in their view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself...
...become increasingly difficult to sock away any money after federal, state and local taxes have gobbled up the paychecks. But to be further taxed on the interest received from money that is put away for the future is certainly unjust...
Begin himself obviously felt he had to go further in his accusations against Iraq. On Wednesday, after his government complained that the temporary U.S. suspension of the latest F-16 shipment was "unjust," Begin made a new claim about the Tammuz reactor. He declared that some 132 ft. beneath the demolished reactor there was a secret installation, undiscovered by international inspectors, where the Iraqis intended to produce their bombs. This too, he said, had been destroyed. The next day, Begin altered the depth of the hiding place...
...legitimacy and authority are nowhere more threatened than in the backwaters and slums of rural and urban America. The Soviets may be one enemy, but poverty and racial inequality are our mortal enemies, the danger from within. If our democratic system continues to tolerate an increasingly violent and economically unjust society, who will choose America...