The District Court further implied that the ban on camping had been unevenly enforced.
Some of the exceptions cited in its opinion, however, are clearly not examples of camping.
Of all the instances in the record, only the Bonus Army encampment of 1932,
Resurrection City in 1968,
and the Mayday Tribe bivouac in 1971
were in any sense deviations from the literal application of section 50.27. Far from constituting an unconstitutional preference for favored groups, the Government action in those cases was merely a flexible compromise in the face of potential disruption of the public peace. Such emergency action does not create an entitlement on other groups to a similar variance from the usual prohibition. On the contrary, solicitude for the rights of every citizen to the even-handed enforcement of the law compels the maintenance of the absolute ban inviolate, subject only to discretionary exceptions in the interest of public safety.