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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'm assuming that right way or wrong way that Cory's goal was to get this to court and challenge the summons and towing based on selective enforcement of bylaws and ask the question about why he is getting singled out and the protestors aren't.
Win or loss in court, he's looking for a soap box and to me that's respectable, he's going to challenge through the system and the courts.
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If that is/was indeed the longer-term strategy to this stunt, then I think there's something to that. Fighting it through avenues such as this is certainly a proper and effective way of getting the desired result.
But....
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The problem being is by the time he gets in front of any courts, its likely that the occupyers will have packed up and gone home due to extreme cold.
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There's the rub, and moreover, the point that people have been bringing up here for awhile now.
Any method of solving this issue (other than just waiting for the inevitable cold to solve most of the issue) has the one or a combination of the following problems:
1. Runs the risk of aggravating the situation into a physically violent confrontation, which it isn't right now.
2. Would take much longer than the onset of cold (fighting it through legal avenues such as you outline above)
3. It gives the occupiers exactly what they want, which is to have their gripes about "the man" the "elites," and whatever other amorphous group of people that is keeping them down manifest themselves in an open and adversarial confrontation with them. In their mind, and perhaps more importantly, in the minds of those who are sympathetic to their "cause," it would validate and vindicate them.
My guess is that a moderately cold period (say a couple days of -10 or so) will send some packing and a few will grit their teeth and try to stick it out, at which point they won't be as eager or likely to have a physical confrontation and will move out mostly peaceably with a little push.
It's the least risky strategy, and also one that will be timely enough when compared to other solutions.