Re: <nettime> Harassing People for Watching a Movie in a Cinema

["Patrice Riemens" <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

> Quoth William Waites:
>
>> It's disappointing that the writer was intimidated into giving up all of
>> his memories to the police in order to clear his name under a
>> presumption
>> of guilt.
>
> It's also disappointing to hear that being told he was not under
> arrest he didn't just ask for his stuff back and leave.
>
> But really police intimidation is designed exactly to ensure that
> you give them more power over you than they actually have. I don't
> blame him at all, I probably would have done the same thing, despite
> knowing it was wrong.

Right On! So now we know something for next time! (and then then'll indeed
formally arrest us...)

my 2bn Zimbucks, p+5D!


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