What should you do when you disagree with the law?
MY TAKE: Government's endless rules strangle everyone. They delay lots of great innovation, and they will kill our future. What should we do about it? Charles Murray, in a new book says, break some rules!
BALTIMORE RIOTS: I call that ‘rioting.' But Kevin Powell calls it ‘civil disobedience.'
"LEFT" OUT? We tend to think civil disobedience is done by people on the left (draft resisters of the anti-Vietnam War movement, Martin Luther King and civil rights, and more recently, the silly people of Occupy Wall Street.) But conservatives were big supporters of Cliven Bundy and his rancher friends when they said the federal government can't touch Bundy's cattle!
WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE THAT TEST: Thousands of parents are breaking rules by resisting standardized tests they don't want their kids to take. They just let their kids sit out of required exams. They call it "opting out."
ESPIONAGE: Edward Snowden saw spying from the NSA he thought was wrong and so he leaked it. Some call him a traitor; others say he's a hero.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST MYTH: My brother Tom Stossel, a Harvard doctor and researcher, complains that endless "conflict of interest" rules banning cooperation between business and medical researchers stops medical innovation. "Pharmaphobia" is his new book about it.
