Just Following Orders

That'll teach her to defy a Nazi-era law. [More]

I had to deal with stupid, petty and power-drunk city bureaucrats in another life. You can see how just a little bit of power goes to the heads of small-minded proto-mandarins, and it's no wonder that more power translates into more abusive egotists for those clerks who go on to become "officials." Many of them -- who reveled in the power they wielded over permitting and demanded submissive acquiescence to their petty aggressive attitudes -- deserved to be publicly flogged just on general principle.