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mircea_popescu: in other news : saw a chinchilla run from a sewer tonight.
mircea_popescu: so then adblocking doesn't rly do much, unless it kills iframes i guess
mircea_popescu: this includes police behaviour like it includes anything.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for closure : the resistance to anything unlawful is not a right, it's a freedom. no court has or could have any authority to create a right out of it, or in any way to curtail it.
mircea_popescu: officer in charge comes over, goes "hmmm... mr. p... would it be possible to ... uhm... look in the trunk ?"
mircea_popescu: so many years ago, i'm coming back to town. im in the back with a girl, driver and shadow in front. there's this roadblock on the local turnpike.
mircea_popescu: "i was supposed to get paper x, da didn't send it. motion to dismiss the case with prejudice"
mircea_popescu: i dunno people... where i come from something like this is enough to throw the thing out.
mircea_popescu: around their prior conflicting statements, to get some “police procedures expert” to justify the unjustifiable."
mircea_popescu: cident that you’re being prosecuted for (See, Rezek v. Superior Court, 206 Cal.App.4th 633 (2012); you’re supposed to get it, but in the real world, you almost always never do), and the story that the cops told the Professional Standards / Internal Affairs Division Investigators don’t jive with the present one. They just make something up; all with the guidance of the DA’s office. Really. They fabricate enough
mircea_popescu: o look at this "The practical answer is, that if you get a sympathetic jury, and may not get convicted; especially if you catch the cops lying and ditching evidence (standard operating procedure; really.) The cops’ stories in these cases are a work in progress; they change depending on what comes up. If you (by some miracle, even though you’re entitled to it) obtain the Internal Affairs Investigation of the same in
mircea_popescu: didn't i say yest today will be cry day ? or something to that effect.
mircea_popescu: "o i was just doing my job" "well... you got a new job now. git."
mircea_popescu: what does he know this schmuck. it's about as scary to be stopped by a cop as it's scary to be accosted by beggars, panhandlers and flyer guys
mircea_popescu: "I know it is scary for people to be stopped by cops. I also understand the anger and frustration if people believe they have been stopped unjustly or without a reason. "
mircea_popescu: "It is also a terrible calumny; cops are not murderers. No officer goes out in the field wishing to shoot anyone, armed or unarmed."
mircea_popescu: "These are young people who want a future of some sort and know that if during such frequent encounters their persistence in being might cease because either the officer, themself, or both are having a particularly bad day their life can end. " this made utterly no sense.
mircea_popescu: but this system where square faced mugs figure themselves alpha is unholy./
mircea_popescu: "it's not the police, but the people they stop, who can prevent a detention from turning into a tragedy."
mircea_popescu: this is Sunil Dutta after having been drug behind a truck for two hours the next day
mircea_popescu: this is Sunil Dutta after having beaten with a steel pipe for six straight hours.
mircea_popescu: "and this was Sunil Dutta. he thought he was a cop. he thought he was pretty cool. this is sunil dutta with his wife and kids. this is sunil dutta with his dog.
mircea_popescu: i intend to make a nice library. the memorial von flondor library, containing documentation of what happens to these folks once things change.
mircea_popescu: looking forward to the videos of them folks being beaten to death over a week or two, once the regime changes.
mircea_popescu: like, police officer messed with plumber for an hour, now county has to pay $1500 plus lawyer fees
mircea_popescu: so do the pds routinely pay small claims for pointless detaining professionals ?
mircea_popescu: then the go on to say that the unlawfullness of the arrest is no defense.
mircea_popescu: that missouri statute is such bs. all the 1st para is replete with "lawful arrest"
mircea_popescu: does he fucking have an opinion on restaurant meals too, like the previous idiot ?
mircea_popescu: and since when the fucking hell does blasio have anything to say about resisting arrest ?
mircea_popescu: but why does it work for your thing ? you're not saying anything normative there.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's normative, i can see it. "when we feel depressed let's take our clothes off and bellydance instead" that makese sense.
mircea_popescu: "When considering what jurisdiction in this world is or is not, or perhaps which one just might be ever so slightly closer to being the land of the free than some other's let us examine a snippet of text that enumerates a right of citizens of some actual jurisdiction the world which might give many people in the United States some pause."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: did you and pascale hate it? << if the girl's frail and the guy big it dun work.
mircea_popescu: and the us crime problem is mostly a creation of the uspds.
mircea_popescu: air travel is insecure BECAUSE the tsa not in spite of it.
mircea_popescu: the us is insecure BECAUSE of the dept of state and us army, not in spite of them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I actually think the endgame a portion in Ferguson seeks is a police department like East St Louis's which see falling crime in spite of near complete inactio << it's not in spite. it's BECAUSE.
mircea_popescu: there's the louisiana territory, the texas republic, old dixie, the original colonies, republic of sociocalifornia etc etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and unlike, say, yugoslavia or ussr, there are no conveniently-drawn ethno-geographic bantustans for it to cleanly collapse to. << sure there are.
mircea_popescu: It is said, if you try, you can bugger the fly, or the swallow as it skims so skilfully by
mircea_popescu: eventually the hedgehog loses it and peeps "i have no hole, let me be!"
mircea_popescu: bear of course finds it, and spining it all around like a hot potato on his paws mutters with great urgency
mircea_popescu: so eventualy gave up, curled in a ball and hoped for the best.
mircea_popescu: just the poor hedgehog, with his tiny feet couldn't really keep up
mircea_popescu: all animals took to flight, earthworms hid in the ground as deep as they could go.
mircea_popescu: and the bear took to the road to find something to stick his hard cock into, repeatedly.
mircea_popescu: one day he got really spunky, and his three bear wives ran off in this peculiar manner of females whose cunt is sore.
mircea_popescu: mkay. so in th forest there lived this very horny, huge schlong bear. sort of like one eye pete of the beardom.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> enemy might be covered in magical armour, but he still has, presumably, a visor << this reminds me, you know the horny bear joke ?
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "the performance people moved away from vinly". it's dead.
mircea_popescu: it won'tr come down to who has many people that can and will fire a rifle.
mircea_popescu: it's just... you know that no modern war will be won by small arms fire. like if the uys and china went at each other
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform similarly no improvement in vinyl discs.
mircea_popescu: hillbillies with chemical weapons are a self limiting problem anyway
mircea_popescu: no wait, in the 20s it was bb pellets. what do you think thompson fires ?
mircea_popescu: dude im missing out on the party. i thought gangland was mostly 45