Cop violates freedom of guy filming cop violating freedom of other guy.
Hey, if the cop wasn’t doing anything wrong, what was he afraid of? (To coin a phrase.)
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Meanwhile, in Greece…
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?
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!
It’s a fair cop.
Cops on Film, a less well known piece by Duran Duran.
I was wondering whether anyone would get the reference.
[...] 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. [...]