Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time

shadowbearer writes "SF writer Peter Watts, a Canadian citizen, whose story we have read about before in these pages, was sentenced three days ago in a Port Huron, MI court. There's not a lot of detail in the story, and although he is still being treated like a terrorist (cannot enter or pass through the US, DNA samples) he was not ordered to do any time in jail, was freed, and has returned home to his family. The judge in the case was, I believe, as sympathetic as the legal system would allow him to be."

Comments

Re:simply standing too close to an officer..

[kramerd]

So you don't like police officers because their policies and procedures allow them to be safe.

Look at the job description between policeman and firefighter. One is to keep cities orderly. The other is to end fires. Gee, I wonder why one of them is perceived to be more dangerous (and only recently has become more dangerous).

Officers claim they have no obligation to put themselves in harm's way because they actually don't.

Its not cowardice, and crutality isn't a word.

Re:So much for "The Thin Blue Line..."

[kramerd]

Try again, this time reading more than just the first sentence in my post. Then, you can respond in context.

Re:Just wanted to note a couple things

[Blakey Rat]

Wow, you sound like a total dick. You don't get a trophy for submitting a story, you know... and, as a side note, when people *really* don't care about things? They don't bother talking about them.

I can't believe your self-congratulatory wank-post got modded up.