In message
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02:04:53 on Mon, 25 Feb 2008, The Real Doctor
remarked:
I think you overstate it a bit. It's not the job of the police to
protect people who wish to goad others.

So the person who parks on the pavement outside my house in the morning
can't expect police protection because he's goading me?

I am not quite sure what you are getting at. You seem to be saying
that it is wrong for the police to protect people from harassment - is
that right?

Someone seemed to be suggesting it was wrong for the police to protect
photographers from harassment (on the possibly tenuous grounds that some
people might be goaded into their own acts of public disorder by his
actions).
--
Roland Perry