cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605
A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.
No one has anything to hide, until they do
I once heard that “Anyone can be charged with a crime if they can be watched closely enough for long enough.”
I’m committing a crime right now, pairing this red wine with this halibut.
I remember that from Don’t Take to The Police. Since gotchas I can think of is touching an eagle feather lying on the ground (endangered animals plus a market for poachers). Point being, that it’s essentially impossible to say with certainty that you’ve broken no law.
Found the quote:
It’s used around 4:40 in the Don’t Take To The Police video.
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And there are so many laws that it is impossible to know all the laws that apply in any given moment. Basically, you always have -something- to hide.
I would like to quote a Hungarian movie classic from 1969 (it was sitting in a box for a decade until it somehow got past the censorship):
Other great quotes from the same movie:
Just if you thought that these people are not the same as the commies were way back when. Authoritarians tend to be alike.