Any way you slice it, it's hard to paint Russel's current incarceration as an "act of civil disobedience", as there's not a clear, obvious State perpetrator.
Enforcing contracts is the one thing that most libertarians -- even anarchs -- think the State might need to do for awhile until private organizations can take it over. And unless you know Russell personally, this sure looks like an (implicit) contract dispute between private parties, where someone -- the State, or a DRO -- might need to step in to enforce contract at some point.
There is a party here that at least makes a vaguely plausible case for being victimized. That's key.
IF the former wife & child are really owed $100,000 then it sure might make sense to put the debtor into a work prison. Granted, this ain't a work prison, but the end results are not so different.
It's just not in the same ballpark as, say, a private agreement to perform a manicure, where the state goons bust in to stop it (no victim), or a man trying to board an aircraft (no victim, unless the airlines were to step forward -- and they could just throw him off of their property), or not paying taxes (no specific victim), or any other victimless "crime" for that matter.
In short, it REALLY sucks that he might be in jail a long time, and that time is virtually useless as an example of state-sponsored aggression.
It is "disobedience" in the fact that the state has no business "assisting" and/or "demanding" "certain" "performance" from one and/or the other "parties" in a "divorce"...
Unfortunately, most couples involve the state as a third party in their "private" "union" when they erroneously request state "permission" in the form of a "license" to be "married"...
Then when one or both parties seek a divorce the third party, the state, gets to play dictator...with the approval of "the general population" and, of course, with the approval of the party that the judge "gives" "custody" and "support" and "alimony" to...
There are some states that figure child support based on what that state thinks is the average yearly cost to raise a child in that state...then the state determines how much of that amount each parent should pay...and that is regardless of which parent has custody...so you may have custody but still have to pay child support to the other parent...
This falls back to many erroneous "expectations" of the gooberment...like asking the gooberment to determine what an "adequate" education is...and how much one should cost...
It's subjective and therefore should never...NEVER be decided by third parties...if the primary parties can't come to an agreement...then so be it...no agreement...
Just like when you go to the orchard and offer the farmer a nickle for an apple he is charging ten cents for...he might say yes...or he might say no...if he says no...then you either give him ten cents or you don't get the apple...
Of course, then the government steps in and screws with everything...the farmer gets subsidies and then, in turn, is micromanaged by the gooberment goons...the customer is on welfare spending money taken at gunpoint from other people...and then the gooberment institutes price controls and demands that the farmer sell his apples below his costs(including his labor which he values at one point, and the gooberment devalues out of existence) and so the farmer is better off cutting all the apple trees down and using them for firewood...then nobody gets and fucking apples...
Unless there is a totally voluntary, full-disclosure contract between Russell and Mindy(which I'm sure that there is NOT)...then the fucking gooberment goons/bureaucrats/jackboots/mercenaries should stay the hell out of it altogether...
The thugs never do anything without the ultimate escalation being the threat of murder if someone steadfastly refuses to be "subject" to their "supposed" "jurisdiction" or "authority"...over another individual, sovereign planetary human being...
So they beat/abuse/rape/torture/mutilate/kidnap/imprison/murder in a direct and indirect attempt to maintain "power" and "control" over the rest of us...the slaves...the cattle...the beasts of burden...
Guess what they would do if everyone just stood firm and said "NO MORE"...
They would put their riot gear on and get busy...
What would they do...
beat you
hit you
kick you
smash you
spray you
burn you
cut you
shoot you
choke you
strangle you
stomp on you
tie you up
strap you down
tear your clothes off
rape your body
rape your space
rape your mind
tear gas you
pepper spray you
taser you
smash your genitals
let other prisoners rape you
let other prisoners cut you
let other prisoners beat you
murder you
I'm sure you can think of more ways that they use torture and fear to control everyone...
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE QUIT PAYING THEM...
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE QUIT WORKING FOR THEM...
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE QUIT FEEDING THEM...
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE REFUSE THEM FOR GOOD...
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE REPEL THEM FOR GOOD...
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE DESTROY THEM...
So, you think they're going to stop doing these things...that get them "off" in a twisted perverted way...VOLUNTARILY!?!?!
Perhaps a few will see the writing on the wall...
Most of the rest...eh, not so much...
Read and/or re-read Atlas Shrugged today and quit supporting the looters/thugs/bureaucrats/jackboots/mercenaries!
They cannot operate forever without your consent...without your empowerment...and without your payment...
Become John Galt today!
Do the minimum necessary to survive...
Do your best to reduce and/or eliminate the amount of taxes and other fees that you "surrender" to the bureaucrats/jackboots/mercenaries...
And get ready for the ride of your life as the Amerikan Empire comes crashing to the ground...struggling, choking, gasping for breath...thrashing about...throwing you this way and that...trying to smash you back into submission...
We do live in truly interesting times...
As always, buyer beware...
Your mileage may vary...
Your target may move...
Your timing is yours...
No commands...
You're alone...
Individual...
Sovereign...
Human...
Being...
One...
THERE ARE MORE OF US...THAN THERE ARE OF THEM...
EVENTUALLY YOU WILL EITHER MAKE THE STAND...
OR YOU WILL FALL AND GROVEL AT THEIR FEET...
YOU WILL KNOW WHEN IT IS YOUR TIME...
AND YOU WILL CALL OR FOLD...
ALL IN YOUR TIME...
YOUR CHOICE...
YOURS...
NO ONE ELSE CAN OR WILL LEAD YOU TO ACTION...
YOU WILL MAKE THAT DECISION YOURSELF...
JUST LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHERS...
STAND TALL AND STAND FIRM...
AIM SMALL AND MISS SMALL...
THERE ARE MORE OF US...THAN THERE ARE OF THEM...
John Shaw!