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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?
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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.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
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
One phone call using a landline at the police station that can only call other landlines within the local area code... and that's after you've had your personal phone confiscated, so if there's anybody you can call that meets those criteria you better have their number memorized.
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 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
Because then they can at least be warm and comfortable, and not using other people's toilet paper, while not actually accomplishing anything. I mean, it's good news for them, comfort-wise. It's bad news for the people they so hate, because all they're doing it making themselves look and sound ridiculous.
... don't want to ruin their business and the jobs that it provides to current employees.
"We demand jobs!"
Ah. That's all it takes! Just demand a job from the people who could be hiring, but who aren't hiring because
"We demand that bankers go to jail!"
Then why aren't they protesting in front of the White House, where the guy who has made the descision not to do anything about that actually lives?
"Leather Shoes Are Murder!"
"Money Is Evil! and, uh,who's running for coffee and a scone?"
"Only Vegans Have The Moral Standing To Vote!"
"Hugo Chavez Has It Right - Nationalize All Media So That The Government Can Only Tell The Truth About How Important And Good They Are!"
"Union Power! Nobody Needs Managers, Financers, Accountants, Legal Teams, Or Anything Else - Just Workers Who Should All Be Rich!"
"Everyone Should Get Everything They Want, Except For The People We Say Shouldn't!"
"US Out Of South Korea! Let North Korea Show They Way!"
"Peaceful Protests Aren't Enough When You're Dealing With Business Owners!"
Yeah, I think the one or two people with the intellectual honesty and integrity to be trying to make anything like a valid point in that crowd will definitely be much better off when all the fair-weather go-to-protests-for-the-food-and-to-rack-up-facebook-friends crowd decide it's a little too chilly out and go away.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
You haven't spent a lot of time in jail, have you? :) My experience is based on being the good guy, not the bad guy.
There are usually numbers for bail bondsmen posted by the phones. That's who you need to talk to, not your mom, significant other, etc. They want their 10%, so they'll call everyone you ask them to.
You have the right to legal representation. If you cannot afford legal representation, an attorney will be appointed for you. That may have a familiar ring to it. The only thing you should say is "I want a lawyer." It may take a few hours to a day, but one will show up.
You can make calls once you're booked in. The calls are collect, so hopefully the other side will take the calls. It's a good idea that people know where you were going, so they'll already know to accept the charges.
Since the charge is only going to be a minor charge, they'll probably book you, and release you ROR. That is, unless you took a swing at a cop or something. You'll be given a court date, and kicked to the curb.
Regardless if you're being arrested for being annoying, or murder, you're not just dropped into some dark hole that no one will ever hear from you again. You just may not be allowed to leave.
Jails don't generally have the capacity to take in hundreds of people at once, and keep them. They have logistics issues. They may have cells and bunks available. They may not have enough food coming in. So the trivial BS arrests (like these could be), will be processed and released.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.