Tim May wrote: > On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 01:57 PM, James B. DiGriz wrote: > >> Michael Motyka wrote: >> >>> So are all convinced this is not a hoax? >>> Brian McWilliams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >>> >>>> FBI Raid Silences Teen Anarchist's Site >>>> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174092.html >>>> >>>> SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., >>>> 31 Jan 2002, 12:15 AM CST >>>> In an interview Wednesday, Austin told Newsbytes he was interrogated >>>> for more than six hours but has not yet been charged with any crimes. >>> > > "Interrogated for six hours" says it all. The more helpful he tried to > be, the more stuff to hang him with. > > One is under no obligation to consent to any such interrogations. > > It's a mistake to do so...unless....unless one is very clearly not the > target of an investigation and cannot conceivably become the target. An > example is when one is a completely uninvolved witness to some event. > Then it's safe to talk, in most cases. (But don't invite the cops, > detectives, or C.S.I. babes into your house: if they see something they > think warrants further examination, they can do a "walk around." A rifle > leaning against the wall could result in their fulfilling their quota > for that week. > > --Tim May > "They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, > and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually > read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the > vote." --Rep. Ron Paul, TX, on how few Congresscritters saw the > USA-PATRIOT Bill before voting overwhelmingly to impose a police state > >
You never know what you might be the target of. I once opened my front door at sirens to find about 13 cruisers with lights flashing parked out front. Most of the city police and a good number of Sheriff's deputies. I had to produce an (untraumatized, of course) female from within the house to convince them there wasn't any domestic violence going on. Somebody had called up reporting bloody murder in progress. Wrong address. I guess. Some of them came back a while later to double-check when they couldn't find anything happening elsewhere in the neighborhood. Good thing she was there, or there likely would have been trouble. It wasn't going well until she came out. jbdigriz
