7 Responses to Cops on Film

  1. A nym May 16, 2010 at 5:26 pm #

    Meanwhile, in Greece…

  2. Anon73 May 16, 2010 at 11:45 pm #

    Funny how the standards applied to you or I never apply to governments, large businesses, or their official representatives. I think there’s a word for that, you know a kind of doublet standard or doubled standard… what could it be?

  3. David K. May 17, 2010 at 10:34 am #

    Roderick, don’t be so ideological! Your remarks rely on a certain theory of property rights, for which you give no argument. Maybe Donnelly’s body is the cop’s rightful property.

    Besides, if unconditionally obeying anyone with a badge and a gun is a requirement of rationality, then the cop had every right to arrest Donnelly. I bet you can’t refute this brilliant argument!

  4. dennis May 18, 2010 at 4:10 pm #

    Cops on Film, a less well known piece by Duran Duran.

    • Roderick May 19, 2010 at 10:49 am #

      I was wondering whether anyone would get the reference.

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    […] Donnelly, whose case I’ve linked to before, is being prosecuted for, as far as I can tell, being an inconvenient witness to police brutality. […]

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