Yeah.

Post #291,066

8/17/07 10:55:33 PM

Yeah.

And I know just how accurate that crap is.

Remember my 'buddy' back at school? And why I had to sneak home after dark when I came back late? (not that I was that successful)

Now, it's codified that if you look guilty, you are guilty - and remember how many people actually believe that 'cops' only harass the guilty...

This truly disturbs me.

Imric's Tips for Living

Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.

Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.

Post #291,068

by bepatient

8/17/07 11:16:10 PM

Point is...

..its not something that is new. Maybe has a cute new name and a reporter blew it into a great sensational story...but observation (which is ALL that this is) is an important part of surveillance and detection.

It would be WONDERFUL if we lived in a world where there were no bad people needing to be detected.

We don't.

There will ALWAYS be abuses. The ex-military WV cops were jerks...and our one favorite did absolutely have a bug up his butt...

but really, how are you supposed to detect bad things if you aren't allowed to look for them?

Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

Post #291,072

by Ashton

8/18/07 5:40:19 AM

Another employer of this seecrut clever method

called Attention + 'observation' was some guy called Holmes. But he daid.

'Course, as with the missing wise-men, historians, Statesmen etc. - for current teachers and their students? ersatz is all we can count on.

(And No Chance ever, of getting your name off the lists, once a neophyte with upset stomach escalates Your bad mood / re. Your thoughts-of-a-bad-boss -- to whatever Atrocity is fancied.)

What was that Spaceballs term? umm yes-

We have now exceeded Ludicrous Speed
(It's been impeachment time since when we were travelling towards that tungsten carbide wall, merely at light-speed.)

Post #291,084

by bepatient

8/18/07 11:56:16 AM

Not true

though not as easy as it should be...you can get your name off the lists.

My peeps have done it. (I have peeps for things like that).

Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

Post #291,146

by jb4

8/19/07 4:49:18 PM

Well...probable cause helps...

And how do you get probable cause? Good, ol'-fashioned poleece work. You know, that difficult, nasty, not-gonna-find-its-way-ont-LawnOrder-cuz-it-aint-sexy-and-requires-more-than-a-3yo's-attention-span stuff. The stuff that was outlawed here after 9/12/01.

jb4
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