> Sounds like you've gone through the coverage pretty thoroughly. So let's > say > you are right. Cindy Sheehan is outside the White House sitting on the > sidewalk. This violates her permit. You arrest her and provide her with > the > opportunity to look like a martyr. Or you do nothing and the story goes > away. Which is smarter? > I am assuming here that she wasn't actually climbing the fence or doing > anything else that could be construed as a threat. As it is, she gets even > *more* coverage when this thing goes to trial. Unless the feds get smart > and > refuse to prosecute. >
If i'm the cop on duty, i arrest her. It doesn't matter what's "smarter" politically. If you break a law, and a cop sees you, you should get arrested. Period. If it was your intention to get arrested, hey...that's the definition of civil disobedience. Now you have to hope and pray that people out there start feeling sorry for you and your cause, start to think your arrest was wrong...yada yada yada...... Instead of getting arrested opposing what she saw as an unjust law (something MLK did), she pulled a stunt to get arrested by a very sensible law, in the hopes that people would see the government who arrested her as unjust. It's a stupid stunt because the two are completely unrelated.....but alas, it's working. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:175214 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
