In Philadelphia, the Mayor and the City Council do not give a flying fuck that the law in Pennsylvania is that laws on guns are the sole province of the state legislature. They're going to do it anyway.
This is a tactic that shows the leaders of Philadelphia are about as sharp as a bowling ball. Worse, this is an action that shows that local leaders are no less likely to throw aside the rule of law as is the Bush Administration. It is the same mindset, the mindset of "we're the boss of you and we don't give a fuck what the law says, we're going to do what we want."
It is un-American. It is a slap in the face of everything that this country was founded upon.
Worse, it shows that the mentality of "laws are for little people to follow" is rampant throughout government. Without knowing a damn thing about anybody involved, I will bet that at least some of them have publicly excoriated the Bush Administration for their flagrant disregard of the law. Yet when it is their turn, it's "fuck the laws, fuck the courts" at its worst.
Governments do not engage in "civil disobedience," as those morons in Philadelphia put it. Governments have police powers, they can arrest people and throw them in jail.
When a government does not obey the law, it is not "civil disobedience."
It is tyranny.
(H/T to Snowflakes in Hell)
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