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Thought exercise: Someone with lawful authority tells you to move. You don't move. What now?

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Become a key figure in the Civil Rights movement?

Expect to get arrested first.

Settle it with a real time auction on the blockchain.

ICO date?

You comply if you think the request is reasonable and lawful, otherwise you don't.

Maybe you get your nose broken and United allegedly pays you $140 million in damages. Maybe the incident causes all warrantless police offices to be banned from hospital ER rooms.

Or maybe the law doesn't stand on your side and you wind up in jail and fined. Who knows.

How do I know that $random_armed_thug is lawfully authorized? Just because he says so?

I paid for my seat on this flight.

If you hope to live, you should comply with $random_armed_thug, especially if they are not lawfully authorized. In fact, the less authorized, the more you should comply, unless you're saying you should start fighting an armed mugger in order to protect your wallet.

This is how civil liberties end - not with a bang but with a whimper.

From the Patriot Act, to Warrantless Wiretapping, to this.

How do you know the police officer telling you to leave is authorized to do so? What are you, the President?

It was a stipulation in my thought exercise, but to your point, all passengers must obey flight attendants, here is the federal law: http://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-49-transportation/49-usc-s...

Did the flight attendants beat him up and drag him off the plane?

You keep dodging the question.

There's a reason why there's Lawful Good & Lawful Evil. Lawful != In the Right.

Close my eyes, chin to the sky, place my arms out toward them, limp my wrists and announce unamused "Drag Me"

Don't drag me, bro!

Apparently, you violently downvote people who have the gall to ask such a question on the internet.

Dronestrike cause that's seat-terrorism?

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