The acquittals shocked both government and industry. The activist was found not guilty due to “legitimate excuse,” a ruling that opens the door to greater civil disobedience for climate justice. (When breaking the law is justified) There is a difference between breaking the law to make a point and an entirely legal mass protest: if Ghandi or Martin Luther King had been able to rally enough people they would have created enough publicity to their cause and should not have broken the law. In a democratic society, civil disobedience is never the only “tool in the box”. In a democracy, the instruments of power are simply the legal channel. We find “loop hoes” in our laws every day. We need to consider two cases where legal channels were much more beneficial. Martin Luther King orchestrated a great display in his march from Selma to Montgomery. The spotlight is on this march. Often revered as a great act of civil disobedience, the fact is that Martin Luther King acted completely within the law. Legal channels paved the way for him to march and the issue rose to national prominence. Nowhere has civil disobedience occurred, so we see that it is never the right thing