Joseph- In an anarchy, the recognized right to civil disobedience comes with no legal consequences. In a democracy, as in any civilized society, civil disobedience comes with legal consequences such as arrests and forced removals. Your “logic” regarding civil disobedience is hilariously flawed. Your conflation of civil disobedience with freedom of expression belies a grossly inadequate background in basic legal principles and civics. Civil disobedience is illegal behavior. Period. It may not be felonious conduct, but it can and does easily land people in jail all the time. Even just to protest requires a permit. Without a permit, there is no right or freedom of expression. In the U.S., the governmental entity with the police power over the locale at which one wishes to demonstrate must provide permits, but they may enact rules regarding where, when, and how the demonstration may take place. It is safe to assume the same sort of system is in effect in Eretz Yisrael. Joseph, your enthusiastic willingness to share your abysmal ignorance with all of us in the coffee room inspires me to advise you of the dictum: bimuflah mimcha al tidrosh.
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