tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post7300592268606913836..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: The kissGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-25769342506639642092013-12-21T12:23:03.959+13:002013-12-21T12:23:03.959+13:00"The Renaissance - oh, yeah, I did that."..."The Renaissance - oh, yeah, I did that."Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-82135120701204136932013-12-21T12:21:59.137+13:002013-12-21T12:21:59.137+13:00Distinctly misplaced. If you are going to claim re...Distinctly misplaced. If you are going to claim responsibility for the G8 policing, you will also have to take credit for pizza, Fellini movies, Lamborghini cars and the behaviour of pigeons in Piazza San Marco. If you really do want to account for all this, I'd say you'll come out ahead.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />SamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-87761325682356183532013-12-20T17:28:49.350+13:002013-12-20T17:28:49.350+13:00Occasional, misplaced sense of shared responsibili...Occasional, misplaced sense of shared responsibility for conduct of compatriots.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-60853802562571878092013-12-19T10:48:22.297+13:002013-12-19T10:48:22.297+13:00Why should you apologise? Were you moonlighting as...Why should you apologise? Were you moonlighting as part of the Rome Mobile Squad at the time, or something?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-49128120543545909432013-12-18T20:56:47.840+13:002013-12-18T20:56:47.840+13:00Pretty amazing to think you were there, Sam. I fee...Pretty amazing to think you were there, Sam. I feel like I should apologise to you somehow.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42461261424390812632013-12-18T14:09:17.296+13:002013-12-18T14:09:17.296+13:00The Diaz raid was a rather old-school piece of pol...The Diaz raid was a rather old-school piece of police represssion. The police came for us at night, with covered faces, using brute force backed by the resources of a supportive and well-resourced legal bureaucracy and media campaign. But with little intelligence. At times it felt like being in a comic book - they acted out the stereotypes of bad cops to an almost ludicrous degree. <br /><br />I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-90822947193516698102013-12-17T10:22:50.722+13:002013-12-17T10:22:50.722+13:00At least that's how it sometimes goes here in ...At least that's how it sometimes goes here in NZ. My Dad served on a jury where the police were prosecuting a number of guys for inciting a riot during the events of 1981. He had to talk down one of the jurors who wanted an instant prosecution because there was no doubt that violence against the police had occurred (although, of course, the police were laying into them with batons at the timeBen Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-62379177203717801582013-12-17T10:00:59.256+13:002013-12-17T10:00:59.256+13:00Yes, every time a hard won right finally makes it ...Yes, every time a hard won right finally makes it onto the books, people who shouldn't use it certainly will. Hopefully common sense within the justice system makes it hard for any charges like this to stick, and any penalties handed down as light as possible, if the charge does stick.Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-49927898778235759682013-12-17T09:11:36.407+13:002013-12-17T09:11:36.407+13:00We all know the famous line from Juvenal... but wh...We all know the famous line from Juvenal... but while they are now being watched, they're still unaccountable. What has been constantly signifying all times is unaccountable power.Brett Davidsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-8593330431746640612013-12-17T08:46:27.832+13:002013-12-17T08:46:27.832+13:00Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting the...Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting there was ever a good old day of responsible and humane law enforcement. Just that these particular perversions of language and the justice system may be peculiar to our times (and connected to how we document cop activity). Give you another example. In the US, cops beat up an African American citizen during a traffic stop (this stuff: not new). A Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-16867907267644147902013-12-17T03:27:28.739+13:002013-12-17T03:27:28.739+13:00while i thank you for writing this, i disagree a b...while i thank you for writing this, i disagree a bit with your concluding sentence - <b>They signify our times</b> - perhaps there have been times in which such events happened less frequently, but they are not rare no matter when and where you look - even the utopia of the american suburb of yesteryear, depicted in tv shows in black and white now available on retro cable channels, becomes a <i>mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com