Thoreau is quite well known and respected here and in México, along with Webster, Emerson, Clemens/Twain, Carnegie, and many more, they all spoke out against the brutalising of other peoples during their respective time periods, there just weren't enough of them to swing the nation as a whole ..... you may not be aware of it, but we who 'sleep with the elephant' as Trudeau put it, are vividly conscious of its every 'twitch and grunt' - we follow this stuff, it's part of the territory .... it's all been translated, Thoreau's Resistencia al Gobierno Civil a number of times, quoted by many a firebrand fighting many a dictator .... among them [the firebrands i mean] was Fidel Castro once upon a time, if you'd like a shot of irony, lol .... can't find it just now ... ah, using the original title not the common one, here's an excerpt anyway - http://www.elcato.org/thoreau_civildisobedience.htm
'Existen leyes injustas. ¿Nos contentaremos con obedecerlas? ¿Nos esforzaremos en enmendarlas, obedeciéndolas mientras tanto? ¿O las transgredimos de una vez? Si la injusticia requiere de tu colaboración, rompe la ley. Sé una contra fricción para detener la máquina ...'
The piece you posted claims Thoreau would object to his tax money being used to dispossess indigenous on the other side of the planet, well maybe, don't know, can't speak for the man .... personally i would question the taking of my tax money for such a use, were i a US national .... think about it - a religiously based state being set up on lands of a people with a radically distinct religion, who get designated to pay for the sins of the NDSAP who were pasted into oblivion long ago, no wonder there is trouble out of the middle east, eh ..... but really i only meant to respond to the anti-castellano thing, so many posts stacked up for replies now, aargh sarai -g-
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