Civil Disobedience should not be used as a form of political change

I am against that statement that Civil Disobedience should not be used as a form of political change and that civil disobedience has helped America greatly. There are a few major points that I would like to address, but first I would like to try to put in place a good definition of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is : refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government. http://www.merriam-webster.com... First of all, usually when people look at civil disobedience, they think of violence. Usually people would think of civil disobedience as when the Bolsheviks had their revolution and took over Russia. This is not what civil disobedience has to be. Civil disobedience can be an extremely peaceful means of helping out the government. Take a look at Gandhi. He transformed the country of India peacefully through civil disobedience and if he hadn"t, who knows how they might have ended up. Another major point is that the world is ever changing. Laws that are in place now, might need to be changed in the future. We most likely will need future laws to be put in place but we don"t know them yet. Lets take a look back at the early 1900"s. Women didn"t have the right to vote. They protested and protested and the eventually got their wish. Laws always need to be changed because the laws we have now may not matter in the future or we might need new laws in the future. We live in an ever changing world and with new times come new laws and regulations. Another point I would like to make what occurred in early American history. The Revolutionary War against Britain was a major case of civil disobedience in American history. They went against British rule and law in order to gain their Independence and freedoms that the British just weren't giving them. If this civil disobedience did not occur, then America would still be under British control. Now, many can argue that okay and that laws do need to be changed, but can"t the government just handle that, why do we need civil disobedience? Sometimes, letting the government handle it takes far too long. Do you know how long it takes to get a Supreme Court case? Most likely many years. Also, as we all know, there are laws that just are not morally right. Is it right to segregate against blacks or women? Government officials during the black civil rights era were too stubborn and big headed to change the laws without civil disobedience. It is unfortunate, but the people we elect into office do not always do what is right, and more importantly, they do not always reflect the views of the people. Our government is for the people right? I mean lets put a scenario in place here. Let"s say we elect a congress and a president, which we do. These people we elect say they are going to do all this great stuff, but lets say in reality, they make some laws that ban all professional football. Are you telling me that people will just sit back and say "Oh okay, well we elected them so, that's cool with me." NO. Government officials are not always correct and people need to fight for what is right. You can"t tell me that Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were wrong for what they did can you? Civil disobedience NEEDS to happen in order to keep the government in line because the government does not ALWAYS reflect the view of the people and the people are everything in a democracy. Finally and most importantly, my last major point that I would like to make is that ALL forms of government are FLAWED including democracy. If there was a perfect government everyone would have it. There is a reason that many countries have many different types of governments. No government is perfect. No government officials are perfect. Everything needs to be constantly changed. We get this idea in our minds that Democracy is the greatest thing ever, yet when you look at US history with civil disobedience all over the place, we can see that Democracy has many flaws. Therefore civil disobedience needs to happen. We cannot just sit back and do nothing, we need to constantly change this flawed form of government that we call great. Remember the statement, "Civil Disobedience should not be used as a form of political change." More often than not, we need civil disobedience, or we might as well just go to communism where the government controls everything and anything. You can see the world around us change, new technology, new transportation, new everything. With all these changes, we need laws to change as well and we cannot always trust the government officials to do it for us. We need civil disobedience.