> > Judy, they were breaking the law! > > authfriend: > BillyG, go look up "civil disobedience" in > Mr. Dictionary... > So, you're thinking that the protesting students at U.C. Davis DID NOT expect to be arrested?
"Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power... In seeking an active form of civil disobedience, one may choose to deliberately break certain laws, such as by forming a peaceful blockade or occupying a facility illegally, though sometimes violence has been known to occur. Protesters practice this non-violent form of civil disorder with the expectation that they will be arrested." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
