{"id":783,"date":"2012-10-19T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=783"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:23:03","slug":"70-no-that-doesnt-count-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"70. No, That Doesn&#8217;t Count, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-784\" title=\"Necessity21\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity21.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity21-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1456cc4dfad5049377298' value='6a1456cc4dfad5049377298'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1456cc4dfad5049377298' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1456cc4dfad5049377298' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1456cc4dfad5049377298' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 21: Civil Disobedience<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, the Necessity defense doesn&#8217;t really justify any crime that&#8217;s committed in the cause of civil disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking\u00a0<strong>one<\/strong> law to protest\u00a0<strong>another<\/strong> is not necessary. You can do lawful things like petition, march, vote, lobby, advertise, etc. to change public policy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The protesters from the bridge scene earlier, carrying signs &#8220;Just Say NO,&#8221; &#8220;moderate change soon&#8221; and &#8220;Stop Mayor Smarm.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now, finally, we can move on to the juicy defenses of\u00a0<strong>Duress<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Self-Defense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe talking head.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s about time, too!<\/p>\n<p>Except oh, would you look at that? We&#8217;re out of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What? Not again!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see you next time in Part 14: &#8220;Do or Die!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1456cc4dfad5049377298' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}