Letters to the Editor: When civil disobedience becomes plain old criminality

A reader spells out the type of civil disobedience employed by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr

'I Have A Dream': Martin Luther King Jr addressing the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC in March, 1963. File picture: Central Press/Getty

To those people today who are breaking the law, whether they are from the left or the right of the political spectrum, and then call their action “an act of civil disobedience”, they are mistaken.

They are not acts of civil disobedience, they are acts of criminality and they should be punished to the full extent of the law for doing so.