| reply to DaMaGeINC
Re: Analysis of confiscated laptop will tell all Yep, cops lie all of the time, almost as a matter of course, specifically to make you look bad, and to give the state prosecutor more ammunition. If you don't believe that, then you've never actually been arrested yourself, IMHO. If you did, your eyes would be opened to the truth.
The *real* reason (AFAICT), for not saying *anything* if you are being arrested (other than, "I want my lawyer" - although it is a LIE that they tell you when reading your rights that one will be appointed to you - only for major crimes, minor ones, even though it is a criminal charge, do not merit a court-appointed lawyer, and even if one should be "appointed" to you, you still have to pay them a reasonably-significant sum, although generally less than a private lawyer costs), is because of this common effect. If you say *nothing*, then the police are less likely to get away with taking anything you say, and twisting it completely around and presenting it as something different. (IOW, your defense could legitimately be, "I didn't say *that*, because I never said *anything*". That's one of your only defenses when it comes to your word against the officer's, regarding unwitnessed statements made during the arrest.)
Me, I'm too fucking honest. I have this bad habit of telling the cops the truth, out of a naive belief that if I showed them honesty and respect, that they would extend the priviledge likewise. Well, that's not true. I found out first-hand. Don't ever trust the police, and don't say anything should you ever happen to have the unfortunate experience of being arrested. They *will* lie, and they *will* attempt to use it against you. That's about the only truism about "the system" - it protects itself, and is "never wrong". There is no justice, really. Just enough of an appearance of such to avoid causing a revolt, and disrupting the profits of the mega-multi-nationals that exploit both the law and the people for their obscene profits. Slavery, although in a different and obscured form, is alive and well today, let me assure you. |
