[Skallagrim]

Since virtually every police department in the country complains about limited resources, there is nothing illegitimate about complaining about those limited resources being used against poker as opposed to being directed elsewhere.

I agree, however, that it is wrong to direct these complaints at the individual officers involved, but it is perfectly fine to direct the complaints at the official who decided resources should be used this way.

As to the comparison to the civil rights movement: poker is indeed much farther down the scale of importance than discrimination based on race, but the general principle being invoked was the same: to blindly accept laws that are unjust (or just plain stupid) simply because they are "the law" is to be sheep, not human.