01-25-2009, 05:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-25-2009, 05:19 PM by Swiss Mercenary.)
Quote:I see your point, but it is not quite like the roof top. More like having them wear clothing with unpopular political expressions in an area of town where it will get noticed. So the question is more the utility of the political risk, and whether it was their intention to bring the political spotlight upon themselves and their family. I'm thinking it is too fine a line to try to define politically safe expression in these terms. The state would be likely to interfere in peoples lives, like political activists where it is not their job, but their passion to speak out against what they perceive as unfairness from the government.
I do agree though that they should have not involved their infants in this mess. I wish at some level that "idiocy" was a crime.
It seems that we're in agreement in principle - just haggling over the price. After all, if they would take their kids with them, when walking around bad, bad, minority neighbourhoods, with clothing that said "_______ are all (racial slurs)", which would carry a good risk of earning some form of reprisal (Even if the kids would be left alone), I'd consider that to be highly reckless behaviour. Much moreso then wearing a BUSH/CHENEY 2004 t-shirt at a hippie college campus.
After all, I'm pretty sure that more then a few of my countrymen are under the impression that the best way to deal with Nazis is with bricks and bats.