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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>>…Also, jaywalking is still illegal; if pedestrians get abusive about this, severely inconveniencing people who have the police chief's ear, expect arrests until the problem goes back down…. Adrian<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Adrian you have far more faith than I do in the legal system. In a time when San Francisco is still trying to decide if shoplifting is still illegal, it isn’t clear to me they will care about jaywalking… spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Yesterday when I was writing on this topic, I knew nothing of this headline that just appeared minutes ago:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=704 height=155 style='width:7.3333in;height:1.6145in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D8D67E.FAB92290"><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I am truly puzzled with regard to what jaywalking has to do with racial profiling, but hey… California.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Aside: by linking jaywalking to racial profiling (by whatever mysterious line of reasoning) it makes it forever. At no point in the future have they any means of making jaywalking punishable, for this has already been identified as racism. Making it a misdemeanor means the functional equivalent of perfectly legal. San Francisco has just surrendered forever its pedestrian traffic law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>