UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
APPEARANCES:
FOR THE PLAINTIFFS:
REMAINS.
THAT'S ON THE TABLE THERE.
UNUSUAL AT A STAGE AT THIS POINT, MR. THOMAS, AND WE'VE HAD THIS SET FOR SOME TIME.
SIDE AND THEN COME BACK 10 YOU AGAIN AND, IF NECESSARY, BACK TO THE GOVERNMENT AGAIN.
FIND OUT WHAT THEY COULD DO AND STILL RAN AFOUL OF THE REGULATIONS.
SANCTIONS, AND SO THAT ASPECT OF THE SITUATION, THE CONFLUENCE OF EVENTS THAT ARE OCCURRING IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, HAS NEVER BEEN EXAMINED.
AND TELLING THE MAN TO GO AWAY. YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR LOTS OF STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE GETTING BEAT UP WHILE POLICE ARE STANDING THERE WATCHING AND NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT; STORIES ABOUT SIGNS ALLEGEDLY BEING DESTROYED, WHAT THE POLICE DID ABOUT IT; STORIES ABOUT PERMITTED MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM BEING FIRST CONFISCATED, DESTROYED, AND THEN REGULATED OUT OF EXISTENCE. AND YOU'LL HEAR THE POLICE'S SIDE OF IT. AND THERE IS A LONG LIST OF THINGS OF THIS NATURE THAT NO COURT HAS EVER HEARD TESTIMONY ON, NO COURT HAS EVER DECIDED WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
OF THE REGULATIONS FOR ALL THESE YEARS AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE HANGING OUT WITH HIM AND THE COURTS HAVE HELD THAT HE'S BEEN RUNNING AFOUL OF THE REGULATIONS, SO LEGALLY WE DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE FACTS, THEN I THINK THE COURT CAN GRANT THE GOVERNMENT'S MOTION AND DISMISS OUR COMPLAINT. BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE COURT SHOULD 'OR IS LEGALLY BOUND TO FOLLOW THAT COURSE.
THINK THAT THAT'S MAINLY WHAT THIS PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IS ABOUT, AND THAT'S MAINLY WHAT THE AMENDED COMPLAINT IS ABOUT. IF MEDITATING OR RESTING, OR JUST BLINKING, CAN BE GROUNDS TO ARRESTED FOR USING THE PARK FOR LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS AS THE CAMPING REGULATION DEFINES A VIOLATION, THEN CERTAINLY IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT IF SOMEBODY IS USING A MOBILE HOME TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THE ELEMENTS, TO MAKE COFFEE, TO SIT AROUND AND SORT OF BE AT HOME AND PROTECTED FROM THE ELEMENTS, THAT, TOO, HAS TO BE CAMPING, BECAUSE THE REQUISITES OF CAMPING ISN'T JUST CLOSING YOUR EYES; IT GOES MUCH FURTHER.
THESE TRAILERS ARE THERE.