Greenwald: 4 points about the 1971 FBI break-in

[Autumn]

2. Recommended.

"Note, too, that these activists didn't turn themselves in and plead to be put in prison by the U.S. Government for decades, but instead purposely did everything possible to avoid arrest. Only the most irrational among us would claim that doing this somehow diluted their bravery or status as noble whistleblowers.

Here again we find another example of that vital though oft-overlooked principle: often, those labeled "criminals" by an unjust society are in fact its most noble actors."

That's fucking awesome