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Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing
JoeGee writes "On December 8th, Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts, author of the Rifters trilogy and Blindsight, was crossing the US/Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan when he was involved in an altercation with US Border Patrol agents. According to Watts, he was beaten, left half-naked in a cold cell, and finally dumped on the Canadian side of the border with no coat. A legal consultant from the Electronic Frontier Foundation was successful in helping a civil rights lawyer in Michigan free Watts. Watts faces US charges of assaulting a federal officer. Based on the accounts, one can assume Watts did so by hitting the officer's hand with his face. If convicted, Watts faces two years in a US Federal prison."
They should give the border patrol the Nobel Peace Prize for keeping America safe.
on the other hand, this may be another victory in the war on tourism.
I for one am shocked.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
infact once i get one, they'll be a whole battery of them to follow
That actually gave me the idea that I might, somehow, be able to cause a stack overflow in the police. I guess I'll be trying that the next time I'm arrested...
watt charged with resistance
(1.21 gigawatts) / (88 miles per hour) = 30 757 874 newtons
Maybe they thought that he'd stolen some precious joules.
Come on guys, let's hear it.
"Watts had it coming."
"They were just doing their job."
"He should have kept his mouth shut."
"Sieg Heil!"
You pro-police assholes who jerk off to cop shows and cheer on police brutality have your chance to come out of the woodwork, as you always do, to tell us all how being a cop is so "stressful", and this kind of thing "just happens" from time to time, and we need to "deal with it".
Come on, out with it.
And make sure Neal Stephenson wrote it.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
It's much easier just to find max_int with max_doughnuts, and a cascade fitness failure will flunk them all from service.
Ever see a skinny cop abusing someone's inalienable rights? Course not.
You know, for Border Guard?
Well if he was dumb enough to do that then he deserves what he got.
Is that the current state of the charges, or is there potential for more?
Fuck the Police!
I FTP every day.
Your private life is your own business.
I am not a crackpot.
As a Canadian I will never understand why the US is so eager about its boarder security with Canada.
Remember USAir 1549? Canadian geese, wise guy. You won't get one past us again.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
. . . was ask for orange juice. Poor bastard.
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