Direct Action

"Opponents of direct action, typically those with vested interests in the status quo, believe that illegal actions undermine the rule of law, and they view civil disobedience as a threat to political order. Among other things, this perspective presupposes that the system in question is legitimate or unable to be improved. It misrepresents direct activists as people who lack respect for the principle of law, when arguably they have a higher regard for the spirit of law and its relation to justice than those who fetishize political order for its own sake.[13] Champions of direct action renounce uncritical allegiance to a legal system. To paraphrase Karl Marx, the law is the opiate of the people, and blind obedience to laws and social decorum led German Jews to their death with little resistance. All too often, the legal system is a simply a Byzantine structure designed to absorb opposition and induce paralysis by deferral and delay."

—http://www.drstevebest.org/papers/exerpts/TOFF/Behind_The_Mask_p1.htm