No, I think they're simply lawbreakers. I think it's time to be honest about democracy. There are laws we like and laws we don't like. And we accept majority rule. I think I sympathize, even empathize, with lawbreakers on a daily basis, but I don't think it's noble to give in to the mental masturbation of pretending that they're breaking laws in some quest for the greater good of mankind. When you're getting high, you're just getting high. When you're having sex with a young man-child, you're just having sex with a young man-child. When you're liberating money from the prisons known as banks, you're just stealing. There are those who work legitimately and soberly, through the appropriate means, as is the custom in democratically run republics, to change laws. These are lawyers and teachers and activists, and they may reasonably be called "freedom fighters" in a sense. But the lawbreaker is simply the lawbreaker. I bear him no grudge, mind you, but let's be honest.
What Angus said. Wise as often.
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