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Their Only Duty is to Call Someone Who Cares

Submitted by Mark Fox on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 12:15pm

Instapundit comments on a court ruling which said NYC subway workers are not obligated to take action to stop a rape:

A Queens judge ruled yesterday that subway employees do not have to do anything but pick up their phones if they see a crime — as he threw out a suit against the MTA and two workers who did nothing more to stop a rape.

A conductor saw the rape from the window on his train, and a station agent in the booth witnessed a screaming woman being dragged down a staircase inside the desolate 21st Street station of the G line. But neither one left the safety of their assigned posts to help her.

In a previous day, in a different culture, such men would have been afraid of being called cowards for failing to help a woman under such circumstances. Nowadays, they’re probably proud of acting “sensibly.”

Governments are constituted to protect us, but none of the actual people who would provide such protection are obligated to do so. We are on our own.
#1Submitted by schulte on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 2:19pm.

Code of silence and non-action

It's a sad state of affairs. I hope more people will get it through their heads that they are on their own when in comes to self preservation.

Now-a-days with the "code of silence" (i.e. don't tell on criminals) on the street, with your last dying breath, you don't even get to have the last thought that a witness will come forward to identify the criminals. Thank God for NE that we have people in the NECP that will.

Man I hate cowards.

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