15 June 2012

Don Macpherson: Shoes too big for Amir Khadir to fill

Don Macpherson: Shoes too big for Amir Khadir to fill

But Khadir’s choice of King and Gandhi as models for his civil disobedience was an unfortunate one – for him.
King and Gandhi used civil disobedience as a last resort because their respective peoples were denied the use of the vote to change laws they considered unjust.
Any similarity between their situations and that of an elected member of a legislature for which elections must be held within the next 18 months exists only in Khadir’s imagination, and that of his sympathizers.