@Beefki @rlier23 @All_bonesJones
>the implicit threat of violence
Not necessarily that, but the threat to not comply with whatever law they're passing.
@Beefki @rlier23 @All_bonesJones Civil disobedience has been shown to work. For example, there was a UK poll tax back in 1989 that ended because enough people refused to pay it. A lot of people did end up in jail, but they couldn't arrest everyone so they had to end it by 1990.
I disagree, most governments will gladly throw you in prison for non-compliance with law, they need more slave labor anyway. All you've done is given them a watchlist.
If they believe they'll receive bodily harm for crossing the line then they will carefully consider how many people are backing a petition.
They shit themselves when patriots took a stroll through "their" building in 2020 because they know they've been fucking people for decades and thought it finally came to bite them. Once they realized those people were unarmed and not there to murder them they enacted vengeance on them for over 4 years. From my point of view it looked like a threat, "We'll disappear you into inhumane treatment and slander you while we do it if you dare rise up against your masters"
@rlier23 @All_bonesJones