[12B]

OK. The cops get a call. The guy is on school property and refuses to leave. They talk to him for two hours. He still won't leave.

You want to tell me what "unjust law" is being enforced here?

He wanted to get arrested to publicize his cause. Fine and dandy. He got what he wanted. So what's your beef with the cops? He was trespassing, he was removed.

[longtermmemmory]

The Agreement: Deceitful tactic by school officials?
Near end of meeting school officials negotiated an agreement with parent, then superintendent refused to sign it; had parent arrested instead.
As the meeting seemed at a stalemate, the Principal and Director of Education seemed to changed course. Although they had claimed they "did not have the authority" to allow David Parker's to be informed when his 6-year-old son was exposed to discussions of homosexuality, they suggested that the Superintendent did have the authority to agree -- at least until the full process of appealing to the School Committee went through.
So they had David hand-write an agreement, which they discussed with Superintendent William Hurley over the telephone, and then faxed to him. Dave was led to believe that Hurley was going to sign this - but instead he called back saying he rejected it, and they decided to have Dave arrested for trespassing.
The whole thing appears to have been a strange tactic to break down David Parker's resolve and have him finally give up and leave.

The "agreement":

We, Tonia and David Parker, are once again requesting that we be notified when gay headed households/same sex union/transgender/bisexual issues are exposed to our child at Estabrook when teachers/staff/adults partake in these discussions.

The undersigned, Superintendent of the Lexington Public Schools, agrees that we will not only be notified when these discussions are planned but in addition agrees to an automatic opt out for our child when such discussions arise spontaneously to be enforced by those in authoritative control. Accordingly key teachers and staff must be notified (those that have authoritative control over our son at Estabrook) so that these accommodations may be implemented.

http://www.article8.org/docs/news_events/parker/agreement.htm

[Wallace T.]

I am not singling out police officers, but all civil servants who are "just following orders." LEOs are not essentially any different from public school teachers, highway maintenance crew members, park rangers, and hundreds of other types of government workers. They are all civil servants. All of them are overly protected from the consequences of their actions, more so than private sector employees and managers. This needs to change.