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strredwolf) wrote2004-09-07 02:24 pm
strredwolf) wrote2004-09-07 02:24 pm
Arresting Protestors for Doing Nothing.
If you watched MSNBC, you'll probably know about this story.
A fairly adept biker, Joshua Kinberg, had modified his bike with a laptop and wireless connection so that you could SMS a message to be sprayed, with water-soluable chalk, onto the ground as he rode it. He planned to execute this protest durring the Republican National Congress, but in the middle of being interviewed by Ron Regan for MSNBC's Hardball, HE WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT ANY REASON! He was put into a makeshift jail for 24 hours before a courtdate was set, and the bike with hardware confiscated. Officers interviewing him got basically nothing illegal out of him -- his plan wasn't to do anything illegal. ( Water soluable chalk isn't destructive ) So he's got to find another lawyer, write a motion to dismiss, and show up in court at the end of the month.
WTF is NYC DOING?!? I think you have to have a lawyer on speed-dial in order to enter the city limits now.
A fairly adept biker, Joshua Kinberg, had modified his bike with a laptop and wireless connection so that you could SMS a message to be sprayed, with water-soluable chalk, onto the ground as he rode it. He planned to execute this protest durring the Republican National Congress, but in the middle of being interviewed by Ron Regan for MSNBC's Hardball, HE WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT ANY REASON! He was put into a makeshift jail for 24 hours before a courtdate was set, and the bike with hardware confiscated. Officers interviewing him got basically nothing illegal out of him -- his plan wasn't to do anything illegal. ( Water soluable chalk isn't destructive ) So he's got to find another lawyer, write a motion to dismiss, and show up in court at the end of the month.
WTF is NYC DOING?!? I think you have to have a lawyer on speed-dial in order to enter the city limits now.
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This was in the 1980s... LONG before 9-11.
The patreot act has extended the police powers to a grostesc extream that has set civil rights activists to research abuses however the abuses of power they are uncovering aren't even news to me.
In the 1980s and 1990s I checked into conspericy theroys and a number of them were attempts to explain away how the police got away with some of the very same abuses when in reality they've gotten away with it for decades.
For the record the disapearing deal isn't a power given to the police. It's a possability due to procedure. The arresting officers tend to be trusted far to much and an "accadent" in paperwork is all it takes.