The Canadian government is currently telling farmers that they do not have the right to unfettered access to the markets that they wish to enter. Peaceful civil disobedience. Rational opposition to racism in the 1960's involved breaking the law. Rational opposition to the Vietnam War highlighted that the United States may have made a mistake entering a war that its citizens weren't sure they wanted to fight, and those who did not believe that their government had a right to forcibly send them to Vietnam were correct in destroying draft cards and resisting. The doctors who performed abortions before it was legal broke the law, but many did it with the belief that the government did not have the right to regulate the human body.
Capitalism is also worthy of civil disobedience.
It is the freest economic system devised by rational humans. It is the voluntary exchange of production by human beings. The government does not have the right to limit that freedom. As I said before, a society cannot be free without a free economy. Never having spoken to the man, I cannot say I know first hand what his motives were.