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Planning On Getting Arrested?

thefadd.

Posted to Diary on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 07:41:31 PM EST. RSS.

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How times change

profwhat.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 04:55:59 PM EST

5.00 (interesting)

Next time I'm at a protest and I see one of these things, I might politely ask its wearer to point it away from me.  Two connected thoughts pop into my head.

One:  Army intelligence agents used to photograph and film anti-Vietnam War protests, often by posing as journalists.  This, they thought, gave them useful information.

Two:  When public demonstrations degenerate into mob violence or vandalism, the government has successfully sought to obtain photographs and video taken by protesters (or journalist/protesters) to investigate the crimes.

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Re: How times change

thefadd.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 06:18:34 PM EST

none

If people intend to be peaceful and want to keep their protests peaceful, then two is actually a good thing. In regard to one, maybe more protests would simply go the way of Anonymous. Then again, maybe not.

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

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Re: Planning On Getting Arrested?

gerrymander.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 03:32:12 PM EST

4.00 (interesting)

Heh. I wonder how long it'll take the ACLU to realize that full audio/video/location recordings from devices used en masse during a protest is a prosecutor's data gold mine?

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Re: Planning On Getting Arrested?

ivyafire.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 07:59:31 PM EST

none

I dunno man, I think maybe my friends should wear these when they go out for a drive.

"It was an ancient rule of Hawaiians that no one should hurt another bodily, or through theft of goods or through injury to feelings.These were the only sins."

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Re: Planning On Getting Arrested?

delete me.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 09:12:16 PM EST

none

Goddammit. I was going to invent one. :(

- derumi (del-me)
"Bobby Fischer? Man, that guy is crazy!" - Mike Tyson

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Trusted by the police?

delete me.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 09:14:04 PM EST

none

Really? Isn't there video evidence of police getting more agitated when they know civilians are filming them?

- derumi (del-me)
"Bobby Fischer? Man, that guy is crazy!" - Mike Tyson

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Re: Trusted by the police?

thefadd.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 01:15:31 AM EST

none

If you actually had a lawyer on the other end of this, that would make things very interesting as there's no law against such a thing that I'm aware. Once you got inside the jail, though, that would be a different story.

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

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Re: Trusted by the police?

zyxwvutsr.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 08:17:05 AM EST

none

There's no law against it, but that thing's so small it's likely to get lost in a scuffle.

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It transmits while the action is taking place.

MayorBob.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 09:59:57 AM EST

none

I believe that's the main strong point of the Miranda to the demonstrating market niche. It essentially is transmitting a signal while it's filming what's going on which means, if it does get lost in a scuffle (or lost when you're in police custody), what a demonstrator wants to publicize about a confrontation is out there and where the device actually is is immaterial.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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Re: It transmits while the action is taking place.

zyxwvutsr.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 08:17:01 PM EST

none

I guess the cops will have to arrest them real nice. Time to change the laws so protesters can be locked up for serious hard time.

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sword cutting both ways

Lou.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 09:26:17 PM EST

5.00 (astute)

Time to change the laws so protesters can be locked up for serious hard time.

Abortion clinic picketers...
Promise keepers...
Ron Paul supporters...
Swinger Club antagonists...
Anyone from Westboro Baptist Church...
KKK...
White Supremacist Gruppen...
Marriage = Man + Woman supporters...
Smokers Rights...
Terry Schiavo picketers

You may be on to something, Z

 

I can't argue with your logic...but I can recommend a good therapist

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Re: sword cutting both ways

zyxwvutsr.

Fri May 02, 2008 at 08:09:11 AM EST

5.00 (astute)

I meant the ones who break the law. I don't know how many on your list do that with the regularity that the anti-war/anti-globalization/anti-etc. knuckleheads do.

If there are any Terry Schiavo picketers left, then they should be arrested and beaten. Just because.

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Re: Trusted by the police?

pO157.

Thu May 01, 2008 at 08:36:29 AM EST

none

Once you got inside the jail, though, that would be a different story.

I find that statement interesting. I doubt they would let an inmate keep a camera past booking (it is a valuable item, security risk, etc) but yet they have no problem with letting a reality TV show into the prison to shoot everything that happens.

I guess it doesn't go both ways, eh?

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