For more than 160 years, Henry David Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience has inspired Americans to "make known what kind of government would command his respect" so that we could live under that government in good conscience. Ultimately, in a free society, that's all we have that is truly our own; our conscience. Following its dictates, says Thoreau, is the only rational way to live your life and be true to oneself. It had been years since I read Civil Disobedience and I was surpised by how Cliven Bundy's words echoed many of the theses in the essay. Legal experts overwhelmingly agree that Bundy has no case - that his pronouncements about the land not belonging to the federal government and him not having to pay grazing fees have no basis in the law. But how about a moral basis for Bundy's stand? Here, he's on firmer ground, as Thoreau painstakingly, and relentlessly shows: Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually...(Read Full Post)