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Originally Posted by Victor
yes, very hard to tell if he was done wrong. like, how could you ever know? gotta side with the gov here ya know. due process for the authorities.
I guess it shouldn't by now, but it still amazes me when idiots like this deliberately misinterpret posts.
I think it was pretty clear that I don't think people should be arrested for their party affiliations, or even for loitering in a courthouse. But there are some bad laws, and people sometimes deliberately try to get themselves arrested to get publicity and highlight the absurdity of those laws. Ever hear of the civil rights movement? Black people going and sitting in restaurants in the south were actually breaking the local laws, and they knew they would almost certainly get arrested, and very likely get physically abused as well. My saying "they broke the law" in this context doesn't mean I support the unfair law, it's just stating a fact.
This kind of thing may or may not have been what happened here; this has piqued my curiosity about it, but that article was so poorly written that I still don't really know exactly what happened.