The lost days are nothing, Steve, it is the loss of his defense that he was doing his job. Badtux has mentioned this a couple of times – if you don’t follow the official policy and procedure you are on your own in court, and responsible for your own attorney and any judgment. He is in exactly the same situation as that ‘super-hero’ you posted on, just another citizen with no special privileges.
Naomi Wolf is a real New Yorker, and they should have known she was going to be a problem as soon as they heard her accent.
Steve, I obey the law, but not arbitrary rules dreamed up on the fly by someone in a uniform. I don’t yield now, and never have. I have been shot at, shot up, and shot down. I went through SERE training. I don’t scare worth a damn. I used up my lifetime allotment of fear a long time ago. These days I just get annoyed. BTW, I got counseling after POW training, as the instructors said my attitude would have resulted in my death. It didn’t bother me much, as I can’t change who I am – a PITA for people in authority positions.
]]>Bryan, I am approaching my limit. I have a lifelong commitment to obeying the law, but I am not committed to obeying an unlawful order by an officer of the law, and it seems likely that sooner or later all of us whose sympathies are with the Occupy community will find ourselves faced with the same choice Ms. Wolf faced: yield to a threat of illegal force or find ourselves falsely arrested for standing our ground.
I really, really don’t like where this is going.
]]>A public right-of-way is just that, public, and they are going to have to be sued to recognize that reality.
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