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You sue. You don't go destroying property.
by dymk 8y ago
You sue. You don't go destroying property.
- vsviridov 8y agoA private middle class citizen suing a $7B company... Yeah, right...
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- dymk 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action
- syshum 8y agolol, Yea... You do know the government has sovereign immunity right, and a cause of action around Traffic Management would be tossed almost instantly
- jessaustin 8y ago"You" don't have standing to sue unless you have been harmed. He got a traffic citation, which is an extremely small harm. No lawyer would pick that up on contingency. Small claims court would throw it right out as frivolous without even considering the larger issues. Now what?
- dymk 8y agoWell if this is such a large problem, you go set up a class action lawsuit. If any law firm saw this and thought, wow, there's actually significant damage going on here, there'd be a dozen at the gate waiting to represent the thousands of people affected.
- jessaustin 8y agoYeah, I won't be shocked if that happens eventually, but in the meantime wouldn't it be nice if the people who are paid by the public to serve the public interest and have also sworn on bibles to do that would actually just do that without being forced to do that? Besides this is yet another example of private profit and public risk. None of the judges, prosecutors, city managers, and cops who receive consideration from Xerox will ever answer for their corruption. Xerox execs will never answer for their corruption. Instead the families of some poor bastards who died of T-boning will just bankrupt a few counties and municipalities. That's not really going to fix the problem. Eventually, Xerox itself will go out of business whether they get sued or not. Nothing says "no innovation here" like the trivially venal schemes described in TFA. Meanwhile, we seem to have drifted a bit here. Re-aiming cameras and cutting wires is still a much more available remedy for the average human being than running a successful class action lawsuit against a corrupt conspiracy of huge corporations and unaccountable civil servants. The difference between those two alternatives is so vast...
- jacquesm 8y agoActually, civil disobedience is simply knowingly breaking the law and sucking up the consequences to make a point. It does not stop at refusing to go to the back of the bus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience#Violent_vs._non-violent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience#Violent_vs....
- function_seven 8y agoSibling comments nail the issue as to why he doesn't just sue. So now he's doing something with much more bang for the buck, and is shouldering the risk entirely on his own. The man's a hero in my book.
- cascom 8y agoThe Cato Institute has been pushing for class action suits for exactly this type of situation https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/libertarian-case-class-action-lawsuits https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/libertari...
- Pica_soO 8y agoAnd after you sue, and loose because they bought the judge, you build a tank and bulldoze every corrupt house in town. You got to do it in the right order. Otherwise we have anarchy.
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- syrrim 8y agoWhat if the actions are perfectly legal?