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Subject:	Re: Is this an overreaction and a violation of rights?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:26:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes: > We have been hearing about some very scary arrests and detainments in > the past weeks. We MUST avoid letting paranoia destroy our freedom. Like what? Am I missing a bigger trend? > I was just reading this news item: > > http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/09/21/video.child.beating/index.html > > I think it is extremely scary that a woman has been arrested on the sole > evidence of a surveillance camera, and her sister is being charged with > accessory to a crime. While the incident caught on tape might appear to > be a criminal offense, we have little more to go on. Um...what could be more damning than video footage? What on Earth _would_ you consider reasonable evidence? I haven't heard anything inappropriate about the handling of this case from the article you sighted or from other sources. This actually seems pretty cut and dried to me. An ignorant social misfit abuses her kid on film and admits to it. So she's arrested and her kids are protected from further abuse. What is it exactly that troubles you? Chris

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		Re: Is this an overreaction and a violation of rights?
(...) The Medical Students in Florida who turned out to: - not be able to be connected in any way to anything nefarious - in fact, didn't run the toll booth as originally reported The Isamic leader arrested in Portland because his luggage showed (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Is this an overreaction and a violation of rights?
(...) And I am in the unique position of agreeing wholeheartedly with Chris. There was a wee bit of a ruckus in LA a while back, and a granny watching the news footage of the looting and pillaging saw her grandson doing said mischief. She reported (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Is this an overreaction and a violation of rights?
I was just reading this news item: (URL) think it is extremely scary that a woman has been arrested on the sole evidence of a surveillance camera, and her sister is being charged with accessory to a crime. While the incident caught on tape might (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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