Well,
Obvously, the policeman is NOT your friend. However (not to excuse, only to point out the reality): Most people in general, are spineless sheep, easily cowed by anybody in a suit-badge combo.
"I have nothing to say" and let THEM prove whatever it is they are trying to frame you for.
About Martha, and various and sundry "poor little plutocrats", I have to wonder why many passionate little people who are struggling to get by, and ALSO fighting to maintain their civil liberties should really take that much pity or concern, any moreso than when some unconnected, non-rich person routinely gets railroaded and immolated by the daily affronts of abusive government. I mean, if Martha and Co. are REALLY so concerned about how they are/have been treated, then perhaps they ought to put a least a little MONEY behind the civil liberties movement at whatever level of their choice. I mean if "rich people are so smart and superior" (as self-evidenced by their ability to attain "wealth"), then how come they are not generally smart enough to NOT be further strengthening the schemes of the State to disenfranchise all OUR rights--including their own!? And if it's not a question of smart-stupid, but priority (like greed is king, and fuck everything/everyone else) well, then again, why have any sympathy for them. These are the people that finance and strengthen the State when it suits them. The so-called "rich" believe in the system, strengthen it, support it. So it's just pudding when the unjust state gives them a taste of what everyone else from middle class on down suffers everyday. You leave too many large guns laying around, don't cry when you get shot by one of them. Us "'po" civil libertarians fight this crap everyday, and we don't get paid for it, and we give in the way of logic and arguments and tactics because we don't have much money, fighting against the shit-tide of brainwashing telling us to "BUY!" and that everything's just "Fine and couldn't be finer". Maybe it's time for the moneypots to ante up some. I mean, why should the average Joe divert attention from other civil liberties causes to protect these poor plutocrats when they trip themselves up. There are a billion other issues, equally important if not moreso, which affect many more people day to day via state sanctioned inequity.
-Max
At 02:01 PM 3/24/2004, "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, to prevent yourself from lying to the feds for any reason whatsoever, don't talk to them. If they insist, have your lawyer talk to them. If they subpoena you as a witness, or depose you, at least you're talking in open court, or at least with witnesses, transcription, and video tape running, and your lawyer's there to keep them from twisting your words around so much.
Which, obviously, was my point. Not some crypto-(emphasis, apparently, on crypto-)leveller prestilog in Youngrish about how evil rich people are.
:-).
Plutocracy, um, rules, RAH
