what would you be willing to go to jail for?

Crooked Timber: Time to count the ranks of the faithful

She followed her conscience, and she apparently broke the law. Now she has to face the consequences.

Not exactly Letter from a Birmingham Jail, but this is the day we observe MLK’s birthday and there was some resonance between this case — where a government employee leaked some documents and may go to jail for it — and others where people have wilfully violated laws that contradicted their sense of justice.