Freeman, I don't recall ever saying that I "support" the action in question - it would feel inappropriate for me to support it, and I'd not suggest that you should! However, criticizing other people's actions also seems inadvisable to me simply because they offend my individual principles - as this action might if I were to consider it within my personal 'jurisdiction' to pass judgment on.

Actively objecting to it feels counterproductive to me - it seems like both poetic justice, and a highly effective "theatre" demonstration. Abstaining from criticism does not necessarily imply support, and often it simply means minding one's own business - and really, the minding of other people's actions and the taking of other people's property are both favorite techniques of the state. Who better for the purposes of an educational "theatre" demonstration than Souter, under the circumstances? If anyone has actually taken the property, it's news to me - there seems to be little likelihood of that. ;)