Show people have right to protest and defy laws that have basis in tyranny by FLOYD T THOMPSON justice illinois supreme court call me a null if you please a rebel if you II please case it is time that strong men got up on their hind legs laga and howled those who would force tyranny on us want to make us subjects of the nation we are not subjects we are the sovereign rulers of this country because a measure is adopted and put ailt on the statute books by those who misrepresent us does docs not mean that we must obey if we do not like the law we should not meekly y and humbly bow in submission because the people def defy y a law of which they aliey do not approve I 1 am not alarmed into belie believing vinc that the ilia nation is crumbling and that we are headed ded for the scrap hleap of nations we are not lawless rather I 1 would be alarmed if they did not oppose the laws with which they do not agree we told that if we do not want a law we should repeal it whoever heard of the repeal of a law which the people did not oppose there cannot be any passive resistance to a law we do not wage war feebly if we do not want a law we should openly oppose it we should defy it ignore it |