There’s another thread in which people are explaining how justified the lawless mob was who tore down a statute. Because, you see, when you’re victimized by a system that leaves you politically powerless it’s okay to ignore the law.
Except when X, or Y, or Z conditions appear. Then it’s not OK.
What are X, Y, and Z, you ask?
Well, that’s for the people making the original rule to decide, and you better just accept it. Because they have the power to decide not only the exceptions to the general norm that we must obey the law, but also the exceptions to those exceptions.
So to resolve the question posed in this thread, one merely has to ask one of those authorities.