Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing 1079
JoeGee writes "On December 8th, Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts, author of the Rifters trilogy and Blindsight, was crossing the US/Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan when he was involved in an altercation with US Border Patrol agents. According to Watts, he was beaten, left half-naked in a cold cell, and finally dumped on the Canadian side of the border with no coat. A legal consultant from the Electronic Frontier Foundation was successful in helping a civil rights lawyer in Michigan free Watts. Watts faces US charges of assaulting a federal officer. Based on the accounts, one can assume Watts did so by hitting the officer's hand with his face. If convicted, Watts faces two years in a US Federal prison."
Wow, (Score:4, Funny)
first reports are often wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Searching for 'Watt, charged' pun (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Searching for 'Watt, charged' pun (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Charges... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Searching for 'Watt, charged' pun (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Searching for 'Watt, charged' pun (Score:5, Funny)
Cue all the police-loving comments (Score:0, Funny)
Come on guys, let's hear it.
"Watts had it coming."
"They were just doing their job."
"He should have kept his mouth shut."
"Sieg Heil!"
You pro-police assholes who jerk off to cop shows and cheer on police brutality have your chance to come out of the woodwork, as you always do, to tell us all how being a cop is so "stressful", and this kind of thing "just happens" from time to time, and we need to "deal with it".
Come on, out with it.
Re:Put him away... (Score:3, Funny)
And make sure Neal Stephenson wrote it.
Re:Charges... (Score:1, Funny)
It's much easier just to find max_int with max_doughnuts, and a cascade fitness failure will flunk them all from service.
Ever see a skinny cop abusing someone's inalienable rights? Course not.
Was there a backwards 'B' on his face? (Score:3, Funny)
You know, for Border Guard?
hitting an officers hand with your face? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Searching for 'Watt, charged' pun (Score:4, Funny)
Is that the current state of the charges, or is there potential for more?
Re:Charges... (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck the Police!
I FTP every day.
Your private life is your own business.
Re:Boarder Security (Score:3, Funny)
As a Canadian I will never understand why the US is so eager about its boarder security with Canada.
Remember USAir 1549? Canadian geese, wise guy. You won't get one past us again.
Re:Wow, (Score:4, Funny)
I guess I just don't understand the reference to Nightwatch. I doubt that anyone thinks the American border guards are vampires as in the movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(2004_film) [wikipedia.org].
Anyways my apologies if I've misunderstood you. It seems to get harder and harder to communicate with Americans as their fork of English moves further away from English.
I'm sure all he did . . . (Score:1, Funny)
. . . was ask for orange juice. Poor bastard.
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