Thoreau, King and Gandhi all said it and so will I....the fact that it's a bad law IS ENTIRELY VALID as a justification for breaking it. Shitting all over an oppressive and harmful law, and then proclaiming your righteousness in doing so, is the noblest act a citizen can undertake.

Thank god Schindler didn't have the same attitude as you, Rusty, or a lot more Jews would have died.

I see peoples' points about the responsibility he had under contract, and I concede that he probably should have exercised more discretion, but the fact remains that, oppressive terms or not, he did nothing wrong. What's a celebrity to do, refuse to sign a contract offering him fame and wealth because an activity he enjoys in his spare time is prohibited in the fine print? No, any of us, pretentions of integrity or not, would sign the thing and then secretly light up.

If it weren't for the fact that he apologized like a bitch, I would have seen him as a transgressional hero standing up for the idea that one can be a great athlete and a great role model and still hit the bong. Were I him, my statement would have been something along the lines of "Occasional pot-smoking is not amoral, and I saw it as a much cleaner message to send to children than had I been photographed drinking a beer." I would lose all contracts after that, of course, but I'd be true to my ideals and I'd have enough fucking money. I mean, really, so he loses all his contracts and can never compete again....he has enough money to fund half of NORML.