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Look Ma, I'm Getting Arrested!
robotissues writes "Cnet reviews 'I'm Getting Arrested,' an Android app that alerts your lawyer and loved ones if you have been arrested while peacefully demonstrating. The app makes it easy to broadcast a message via SMS in case all hell breaks loose."
I think when all hell breaks loose, it looks like Darfur, not Occupy Wallstreet.
Would you mr policeman give me time to run this pretty app before you use your handcuffs on me?
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
We're not to far from the first frost of the season, so a good bit of these protests will go away.
An app that streams live audio and video to the web (in case the phone is confiscated or destroyed) would help catch those abusing their power. The key is to make it automatic and impossible to prevent, short of jamming mobile networks. Evidence is the most important weapon in the war on abusive authorities.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
This is awesome. So while I'm out protesting corporations, I can use my phone, produced by a corporation, to notify my family that I've been arrested. Maybe I can get one of them to bring me a frapacino.
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Could be embarrassing if you accidentally run the app.
/ did not rtfa incase it says something about that.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
regardless of where you stand on any of the issues or what you think about any protests and protesters, whether you think all police are jackbooted thugs or are paragons of virtue, or (more realistically) somewhere in between, the fact that there is a (perceived or actual) need for this app is an incredibly sad comment on our times
When all of your wishes have been granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed - Marilyn Manson
Another tool for the cops who are having a bad day to use against you.
"Ron, first confiscation you make from a subject is no longer the gun. It's the mobile phone."
I jest, I jest. Or do I?
I hope it's free app. People who get arrested usually have the right for one phone call (if they are still able to talk)...
I think now there no limit on call other then the high cost of makeing them.
"While peacefully demonstrating"
So it doesn't work when you're breaking windows or spraypainting buildings?
This app should have the option to shout, "Don't taze me bro" repeatedly at maximum volume too.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
How would it know you were protesting rather than doing something else?
"I'm sorry. I can't send a message. You were holding up a liquor store. That's not peaceful protesting."
I bet the soon to come pro version will do a secure wipe of the phone so that the police can't perform a warrantless search on it. Obviously this version will be targeted at mobsters, drug dealers, and the tinfoil hat crowd.
I just hope when this is all said and done I still have enough in my 401k for a sniper rifle, a machete and some rope.
Until a few years ago I would have said we were free from being in this state up here in Canada. But then we have the pepperspraying of peaceful protesters in Vancouver, followed many years later by the treatment of the protesters at the G8 summit - which appears to have been used by the Conservative Harper government as a training exercise in how to run a police state in all regards. They attempted to incite people to break the law using police undercover officers in the midst of the protesters, they kettled people with no reason, they beat up on hundreds of peaceful protesters, they announced they were enforcing a law that they KNEW was not on the books and which had never existed - arresting people under it. They held protesters who had been arrested in overcrowded cages,refusing them food, water, medical attention etc, without charges being layed, then released them 12-24 hrs later without explanation. All this against a backdrop of Conservative misappropriation of the vast funds spent on the event (1 billion total or so I think). I am thoroughly ashamed that my fellow citizens somehow saw fit to elect Stephen Harper to be our Prime Minister, then handed him a majority government in the following election. How enough of them could be so misguided as to vote for him is beyond me. I wouldn't buy a used car from that asshole, and I sure as fuck don't trust him as the PM. The only things Harper believes in as far as I can see, are his own manifest destiny and a strong desire to earn the praise of the US Republican party by doing whatever they want him to do.
Mostly Canada is pretty peaceful and calm, but if we dare object to something the Conservatives are doing, we get treated like we are criminals with no rights, and the Canadian constitution which guarantees those rights is trampled by the Police that run to do his bidding. I used to have immense respect for the various police forces in Canada - my father was a cop in Vancouver, and if I hadn't been accepted by the Canadian Military first, I would have been a cop there as well - but no longer after watching their behaviour in Toronto during the G8/G20 summit. Lies, Deceit, Corruption, these are all cards in the hand the Conservatives are playing - and my fellow countrymen/women appear to be too blind or too stupid to see it.
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
For accuracy, the app should also notify them of what you were actually doing during your "peaceful demonstration" which caused the arrest:
"John was arrested for...spitting on an officer...while peacefully demonstrating."
"John was arrested for...trespassing on private property...while peacfully demonstrating."
"John was arrested for...impeding access of emergency vehicles...while peacfully demonstrating."
Also makes "Hey Dad, I'm in Jail!" by Was (not Was) your ring tone. I like it here!
That is where you are incorrect. They definitely do not limit the cost of those calls. The rates are outrageous. Someone from a county jail kept trying to call my cell phone collect for about a month. I eventually had to call the county and ask them to block my number. Now you better not try and call me with your free call!
I hope it also reminds you to Sharpie your contact's telephone number to your arm before you go out. When I was arrested at a peaceful protest they confiscated my cellphone, the only number I had memorized was an ex-girlfriend's parents... from 7 years ago and two states away. http://www.joellueders.com/arrested.html [slashvertising]
Although this will be great for motorists being bagged by overly zealous traffic cops, I don't think it will be much use at demonstrations. Government agencies have already demonstrated their willingness and ability to shut down cellular infrastructure or use jammers in order to disrupt protesters' ability to communicate, and this trend will only escalate in the coming years.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
"Busted, down on Bourbon Street, Set up, like a bowling pin. Knocked down, it get's to wearin' thin"
I dunno, but "I'm sorry boss, I won't be in to work tomorrow, I'll be in jail" isn't quite what I'd want to text. It might lead to very uncomfortable consequences without a very good explanation, I'd prefer the leisure of interactivity when informing my boss of that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
... of a phrase from (oh boy) a TV show. [Paraphrased, of course]- "There are 3 sides to every situation. Side 1, side 2, and the truth." The good thing is that with increasing video coverage, we can see what happened rather than just each sides views of what happened. Of course, there is the downside of always being watched for no reason
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
You sir, hit it on the head. A lot of the so-called Super Rich don't actually have a whole lot of cash on hand. They live on credit, investments, and dividends, plus money market accounts.
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
Which just goes to show that neither the Libs nor the PCs give a flying fuck about personal rights, due process, etc.
"Look ma, I'm crapping on a cop car. Ow ow ow, don't taze me bro!"
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Write your numbers in permanent ink on your arm before you go to protest. Be ready. Read up on activism. Tell someone when you expect to return. Go in groups and all that ...
"50,422,007 people like this app."
/snark
So stop voting for them then. Pretty simple solution, there is actually a third major party called the NDP, and if you don't like that there's independent candidates as well.
Haven't been voting for them for quite a while.
However, an individual vote is statistically insignificant, so I am trying to raise awareness in my fellow citizens and encourage them to take appropriate action as well. Thus my post above.
Send a text to my mom when I get to the police station.