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Posted by Brighton Private on Wed Mar 10 17:31:49 2010, in response to Re: Visiting Photojournalist Harrassed by New Jersey Transit, posted by BMTLines on Mon Mar 8 18:08:53 2010. There is nothing wrong with creating a situation to "test" an illegal policy.Does the name Rosa Parks mean anything to you? How about lunch counter sit-ins? Even Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that led to the odious separate-but-equal rule more than 100 years ago, was a deliberate provocation orchestrated with the cooperation of the railroad, which wanted to eliminate the costly practice of providing separate facilities for black people. Which is why they picked a person who was only one-eight black (the Supreme Court's opinion refers to him as an "octoroon") as the test plaintiff. Let's keep the blame where it belongs: on the people who are trying to intimidate others from exercising simple, traditional freedoms. |
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