Dear Sir,

There is much talk today of “the law” and how we live in a society that obeys “the law”. I am in no way encouraging people to break the “law”.

However, ponder this.

If Jesus, the Apostles, Martin Luther King, etc, had strictly “obeyed the law”, where would the hope of the world be? These were the men who “turned the world upside down”.

If the American revolutionists had strictly “obeyed the law”, there would not have been a Boston Tea Party and Americans would still be sipping tea as “British subjects”.

If the American abolitionists had strictly “obeyed the law”, the racist South would still be ascendant and the peculiar institution known as slavery would still be a socially viable and approved system.

If the Indians had strictly “obeyed the law”, India would still be “the Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire and still be supplying the British with revenue for its economic machine.

If the African colonies had “obeyed the law”, Africa would still be fodder for European economic machines, and in a worse position than it is in at present.

If black South Africans had “obeyed the law”, apartheid would still be a socially acceptable democratic system. And then there is Russia, Poland, Germany, etc, etc, etc.

And so what of Bermuda?

Were there not laws protecting the “system”, which if not broken by “revolutionists” would have maintained an unfair, unequal system for a majority of its population?

So tell me, please, when is it lawful not to “obey the law”?

CLEVELYN CRICHLOW