Civil Disobedience has been recognized by the Canadian courts and widely recognized around the world as a necessity in any free and democratic society, especially when an issue is too important for us to collectively lose. Claiming to be neutral in situations such as these is always siding with the more powerful. It is shameful how President Andrew Petter has responded by paying lip-service to free speech, and then comes out against the actual demonstration of such by siding with the power structure and against SFUs own community members. Historians offer evidence that some extra-legal activity always has had to be, and always will have to be, accepted by the legal system. Philosophers provide us with a rather uncomfortable insight that many brands of intentionally disobedient conduct may be justifiable and there is no bright line to help lawyers and Courts, who … actually have to make decisions. --- Professors Judy Fudge and Harry Glasbeek, “Civil Disobedience, Civil Liberties and Civil Resistance: Law’s Role and Limits,” (2003) 41 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 165 at 172. Simon Fraser University sfu.ca/pres/petterspeeches/2014/2014-08.html
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:45:07 +0000
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