Many people hear civil disobedience and immediately gasp and think anarchy. Civil disobedience is far from it. Anarchy is men governing themselves, while civil disobedience is merely refusal of civil laws in order to change governmental policy.
The easiest form of civil disobedience is to enact a right that is normally infringed upon. Many today don’t know it but their rights are infringed upon constantly. The biggest right of all is usually your right to privacy.
Your right to privacy means you have the right not to disclose certain information. If I came up to you and asked you where you were going, who were you seeing, why are you going there would you be obligated to tell me? Of course not, you have the right to privacy which can’t be taken away. Does that right change if I put on a uniform and badge? No, you still have the right to privacy and still can refuse to answer those questions.
There is no reason for answering questions like the ones in the above paragraph, those questions are probing questions, there to only try and see if your hiding something. Most of the time the officer will be cordial and nice and make it sound like he is making conversation, don’t be fooled, they have a job to do and it isn’t to be your friend.
By refusing to answer those questions your enacting your right to privacy and showing the officer that there are boundaries set and you know them.
The way to do this is to always be polite. Never be condescending, politely refuse to answer his question. When, and they always do, ask why don’t you want to answer, politely refuse that question as well and explain you believe in your right to privacy and this encounter doesn’t require me to give you that information.
With civil disobedience comes risk. Police hate when someone knows their rights and enacts them, it takes there power away from them and the only way they know how to get it back is through intimidation. You may be asked to get out of your car and asked to be searched, REFUSE. The supreme courts have ruled that officers can do pat-downs to search for weapons but not physically enter your pockets unless given consent. If the officer asks to search you, ask do you mean a pat-down or search? If it is a search refuse, if its a pat-down you have no choice, just be sure to try and document if he goes through your pockets without consent. They may want to search your car, again refuse, let them get the drug sniffing dog. If it goes this far you must start doing your own investigation, the officer is under policy to tell you what there searching for and what there probable cause is. Collect evidence against the officers and be sure to file a complaint or talk to a lawyer.
This act of civil disobedience is probably one of the easiest forms to practice. Most of the time it doesn’t go to the extreme as I described above, as long as your consistent and polite and not condescending. Always have it in the back of your mind that they’re here to serve us not the other way around.
This is the home of the free and land of the brave, always act brave and always achieve freedom.

Hell, I didn’t even know what IRC was until I had to get a program for it just to do the interview. 


(of course a irony) , so he said that’s all I can do, you’ll be fine, and I said that I know it’s my fault that I can’t do it, so never-mind, I don’t want to join channels anymore. I thanked all the staff and apologized for the pain, but no thank is enough for it.