Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
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Detaining my partner: a failed attempt at intimidation
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#2This and the fact that Obama is constantly being caught in lies says to me that the U.S. government has no clue what information Edward Snowden has passed off to Greenwald.
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#3I'm shocked that police actually have the power to hold you for nine hours, refuse you a lawyer and that you are not allowed to refuse to answer questioning.
Edit: shocked is probably the wrong word it's hard to get surprised by this stuff anymore.
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#4This and the fact that Obama is constantly being caught in lies says to me that the U.S. government has no clue what information Edward Snowden has passed off to Greenwald.
This could be unrelated to the US as details of UK spying were also released.
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#5> The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows
What a flagrant abuse of power. It looks like their power should be reigned in.
The acts are fascism. The public would pay more attention if we refer to them as such.
* edits: wording. I have hard time being dispassionate about this.
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#6I'm shocked that police actually have the power to hold you for nine hours, refuse you a lawyer and that you are not allowed to refuse to answer questioning. Edit: shocked is probably the wrong word it's hard to get surprised by this stuff anymore.
It seems odd that they removed property of a journalist. I was under the impression that journalists (and their materials) had special protections under English law.
Once you get in the country you have different rights (http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/law_e/law_legal_system...) (https://www.gov.uk/police-powers-of-arrest-your-rights)
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#7So many countries have "Detain first, something-something later" policies that it's easier to make a list of the ones who don't. Like Japan, for example, allows suspects to be arrested and detained for 20+ days without being charge
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/japan-end-abusive-detention-s...
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#8more of this : "But the last thing it will do is intimidate or deter us in any way from doing our job as journalists. Quite the contrary: it will only embolden us more to continue to report aggressively."
less of this: "ohh noo.. Should I write my opinion on the internet? What if the NSA is watching????! Will I be put on the...the. the list???"
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#9> Miranda was then released without charge, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.
Thievery and intimidation are good indicators of who and what we're dealing with.
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#10> Miranda was then released without charge, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. Thievery and intimidation are good indicators of who and what we're dealing with.
As IRC has taught us for two decades, there are probably few things more antagonistic than a butthurt pirate.