Officials threaten to fine Feds for fence blocking bike lane

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3. Power is multi-layered -- but one layer involves millions and millions of routine accommodations

made daily, often by people who aren't even thinking about the consequences of their tiny actions

When the Nazis first had power in Germany, an early requirement was that the official greeting used by all government workers would be the stiff-arm salute with heil wazzizname. This meant that everywhere everybody went, the stiff-arm and the heil were constant and became ingrained

Even gently murmured dissents can matter

The principle that everyone is subject to the law matters too