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I'm a "Rule-Follower". Am I a champ or a chump?
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You're neither champ nor chump. But I would advise you to be a little less rigid because some laws SHOULD be broken. I even had a judge once tell me this. I was arrested for a misdemeanor for providing food and water to the homeless when I was living in Arizona. I was careful not to resist knowing that this fight belonged in the courtroom. At the time I could not afford a private attorney so one was assigned to me who advised me to plead guilty and accept the fine and 30 days in jail. Thankfully, the judge overseeing my arraignment simply dismissed the case out of hand. His words were
They have a law against giving food to homeless people? That seems like a conflict with the ICESCR, which the U.S. has signed.
No, the law is against "distributing food without a permit" ... which does essentially bar people from giving food to homeless people outside of a soup kitchen or something. But yeah, it's still a shitty law.
The US violating international law? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
This was quite a few years ago. It was 2008 so things might very well have changed.