It's civil disobedience when you intentionally and openly provoke your own arrest by publicly breaking a given law in order to politically protest that law and gain support for its lawful repeal.
This is not that.
This is the American right working itself into a pre-fascist frame of mind.
Is it Time for Civil Disobedience of Kludgeocratic Bureaucracy?
These are voices of "responsible opinion," the "real adults" and "serious people" whose access to the national megaphones - actually, corporate and billionaires' megaphones - supposedly ensures they are not flakes, crackpots, bigots, fanatics, or fools.
But, like their hero John Galt, these people don't give a damn for republicanism, legality, constitutionality, or due process and they positively loathe democracy.
What they care about is their own individual and corporate power and wealth.
They hold it is the duty of government to enable and defend the vast and terrible inequalities of wealth and power essential to capitalism in the abstract, and those characteristic of the current American and global corporatocracy in particular.
They resent the efforts and deny the right of government, the nation, the people, or anyone at all to limit their wealth or their power, economic or political, in any measure or for any purpose they do not, as a class or as individuals, approve, and in particular to limit or redress exactly those inequalities to advance the public good.
What Barone here gives his stamp of approval is a concerted effort by the so-minded corporatocracy to swamp the state with crime in a sort of massive denial of service attack, aimed at permanently destroying democratic and progressive government.
That is revolution from the right.
When they blathered about John Galt they were only fantasizing.
This is much, much more dangerous.
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