Christian civil disobedience


	Christian civil disobedience

hayesstw

5-17-2008 1:37 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/43eb4688-1b20-48d4-8e5e-b9dc796acbec/39CB76BA-4B42-4AF5-8999-B550EFE886E0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-nineoped0516,0,1231536.story" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-nineoped0516,0,1231536.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.baltimoresun.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-nineoped0516,0,1231536.story">Forty years ago tomorrow, nine
committed followers of Christ entered the Selective Service Office
in <A id="PLGEO100100603020000" class="taxInlineTagLink" title="Catonsville" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/us/maryland/baltimore-county/catonsville-PLGEO100100603020000.topic">Catonsville</A>. They moved past
three surprised office workers,
who questioned what they were
doing but did not stop them. The
nine quickly gathered 378 1-A
draft files in wire baskets, then
took them to the parking lot and
immolated them with a homemade
version of napalm. They
prayed quietly over the burning
papers until the police arrested
them 15 minutes later.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-nineoped0516,0,1231536.story">
Now, four decades later, we are
again in a war in a country we can
barely identify, a country whose
language, people, religion, history
and culture we neither know nor
understand. Interestingly, the Catonsville
Nine anniversary is occurring during a debate over
whether to establish a permanent
ROTC site at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County campus
in Catonsville, amid objections
to the "militarization" of college
life. These issues, so prominent
during the Vietnam era, are
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