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[privacy] NYPD Intelligence Operation Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:31:49 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wow. Via Wired News. [snip] Though they'd never seen him use the bike, the police arrested Kinberg on criminal mischief charges prior to the convention start, during an interview on Broadway Avenue with MSNBC's Ron Reagan. The arrest took place on a spot where, two days earlier, Kinberg had printed out the water-soluble message, "America is a free speech zone" during an interview with MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann. During his 24 hours in lockup, his bike was inspected and praised by bomb-squad technicians, while detectives traded Polaroids of his creation and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force questioned whether he knew violent protesters. Kinberg's charges were later dropped, on the condition he not get arrested again for six months. It wasn't until December of last year that Kinberg learned his arrest was less spontaneous than it appeared. [snip] Much more: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/04/kinberg_0410 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.0 (Build 214) wj8DBQFGGyFBq1pz9mNUZTMRAqA/AJ95ePw0hgGG17tRTXBQIIP5q6Os5QCbBXmn 3RzEukTFZ/P+X0bi1knOgv4= =Etg+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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