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Podcasts - Sofanauts 35

Jun 15, 2010 12:23

By sheer coincidence, I started catching up on Sofanauts yesterday and listened last night going home and this morning coming into work to Episode 35. This is the episode where Peter Watts talks about everything that happened when he tried to cross the border out of the US. It is an unbelievably compelling account. I had goosebumps for most of the ( Read more... )

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planeterry June 15 2010, 04:53:52 UTC

Hm... retracting comment till I think about it more... p.s. just posted apropos boingboing link...

girliejones June 15 2010, 05:13:35 UTC

was food for thought, cause I don't think group 3 was how you had interpreted it

planeterry June 15 2010, 05:17:32 UTC

Yeah, and as I haven't listened to the podcast I really should've paused... But I saw quite the fallout on the webs saying he deserved it (as opposed to Group 2 "deserved worse") cause he should've just Obeyed... Nice that the Watts campaign got to BoingBoing! Surely it'll happen now...

girliejones June 15 2010, 05:23:42 UTC

See were they saying that he deserved it cause he didn't obey or that he should have obeyed to avoid what happened? is the second less malicious and just more accepting of the way things are?

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girliejones June 15 2010, 05:13:05 UTC

It reminded me of an incident recently where I got pulled over by police for the very first time and I was asked to stand on the side of the road whilst one cop was talking to me but the second cop opened my car door and startin touching things and looking around. I was not warned this would happen, nor explained why - he did not speak to me but the other cop - and I was made to feel like I couldn't react and be like "hey why are you touching my stuff."

Mostly though, I just kept my head down. It's my instinct.

maharetr June 15 2010, 05:18:18 UTC

God. The whole thing with Peter Watts sounds horrifying. Thanks for the link.

I'm reasonably sure that they can't search your car, though, without reasonable cause and informing you first. This is possibly based on assumption on my part, because they need a warrant to be able to legally search your home, don't they?

girliejones June 15 2010, 05:22:21 UTC

Nobody *needs* anything, if the system is not functioning "the way it should".

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