Hard News: A Work of Advocacy
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When I was in my 20s, we were protesting about shit every bloody week – partly because it was fun and a good way to pick up girls...
The mists of time seems to have done a number on your memory. But exaggerating for effect can be fun. How did you go with picking up girls then?
dispiritingly devoid of any underlying analysis of power.
Analysis of power necessarily means analysis of human behaviour. No?
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Sacha, in reply to
Sorry, I'm not clear how that response was "unnecessary" in the circumstances, but it's your place and I'd hate to give anyone reasons for ducking off rather than responding substantively.
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Yeah, but nah. Unless you're suggesting the "struggle" includes going to the boot, breaking into the secure drive storage bay, removing the drive, and "losing" it.
I'd imagine that the camera will be fixed in the car (this seems to be how they work in the states where they often provide video for "crazy fucking crashes" video clips) that the easiest way to get around them will be to park in front of whoever you pull over, or point your car the wrong direction, etc, if there's ever a time you really don't want to be filmed.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Sorry, I’m not clear how that response was “unnecessary” in the circumstance
In a tit-for-tat sense. It's fine, don't worry.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
But what people in this thread seem to be saying is that it is incumbent on these filmmakers to observe standards of “objectivity”
I'll echo Sasha, Bollocks!
You either haven't read what is here or haven't understood it. Most of the questions being asked refer to the appropriateness of releasing this film before the court case is heard and whether that prejudices the trial.
I could care less about objectivity, in fact I love it when people have passion for something and present that passion, in this case the right/responsibility to protest. But I do care about our justice system and dislike it when people on any side try to corrupt that system, to my mind this film pushes that boundary very hard.
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Now that I'm thinking of it -- not that I don't have work to do -- I had to ask one fairly regular commenter to leave and not come back after he wouldn't resile from claiming that I received Media7 as payback for my faithful service to the then-government over the terror raids.
It does irk me when it's hard to express a genuine and reasonably well-informed view without being automatically aligned with the fascist police state ...
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
the easiest way to get around them will be to park in front of whoever you pull over
Yeah, except that there are many good safety reasons to park behind them, none of which is related to capturing things on camera. Or are you talking about the cops who pull people over for the specific purpose of doing them mischief, as opposed to the ones who pull people over for some valid exercise of their legal powers?
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BenWilson, in reply to
Ya, anyway all the good biffo happens in the station, where cops are the only witnesses.
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You got "Media 7" for services to the government? Does Top Shelf know? The conspiracy must run very deep indeed.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
You got “Media 7” for services to the government? Does Top Shelf know? The conspiracy must run very deep indeed.
You'll have to ask John Drinnan. He said much the same thing in a particularly spiteful column before the show launched.
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Ya, anyway all the good biffo happens in the station, where cops are the only witnesses.
It's much easier to justify the use of force if it happens on the street. And to blame "clumsy" crims for their own injuries.
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HORansome, in reply to
I'm rather propose a cock-up rather than a conspiracy theory... Wait, if you got the show because of a cock-up, then surely that's worse than being given the show due to a conspiracy...
This is definitely a hole I can't dig myself out of.
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Sacha, in reply to
The conspiracy must run very deep indeed.
We're expecting a chapter in your thesis - if Brown hasn't paid you off already.
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Okay, I've had a phone conversation that has convinced me that the leaked affidavit on the internet (don't know about the Dom Post's) was a copy of Jamie Lockett's -- but Lockett didn't leak it, a third party (one you might have heard of but not in connection with this case) did.
- So the Dom Post's copy didn't come from the police.
- The Lockett copy didn't come from Lockett
- They may or may not be from the same source.Fascinating. All such tips gratefully accepted.
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BenWilson, in reply to
It's much easier to justify the use of force if it happens on the street. And to blame "clumsy" crims for their own injuries.
True, but there is that nagging worry that you might actually get bashed yourself, which doesn't factor down at the station. And who needs some sticky beak who saw the whole thing coming out of the woodwork?
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HORansome, in reply to
Whilst no money has passed hands between Mr. Brown and myself I can confirm that I have drunk his whisky, and surely that is a bond stronger than money between a man and his master.
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BenWilson, in reply to
Is it stronger than the coffee-bond?
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There seems to be some assumption here that the filmmakers should have adhered to BBC standards – never mind that our TV broadcasters don’t.
FFS, Peter, given the vitriol I've poured for TV broadcasters for their credulous treatment of Ken Ring, the scientifically fraudulent claim that there's a link between vaccines and autism etc. ad nauseum et infinitum you want to set your baseline that low? Really?
I'd suggest you sit down and watch Errol Morris' classic The Thin Blue Line -- most certainly an act of advocacy/activism but still scrupulously transparent about its own methodology and limitations.
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Sacha, in reply to
I can confirm that I have drunk his whisky
true, that
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nzlemming, in reply to
This is definitely a hole I can’t dig myself out of.
But it's such fun to watch. Here, have another shovel.
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Kracklite, in reply to
They (and who are"they”?* The reptoids?) say, “when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. I say, “Where’s the fun in that?”
*You know, that solves it. It’s not the Atlanteans, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the Templars or the Reptoids, even. It’s Them. You just have to find the offices in Geneva registered to Them and it’s all solved. They might be Them.com, Them Plc, Them + Partners, but it’s Them. Them, Them, Them. Simple.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I can confirm that I have drunk his whisky
true, that
He ate my falafel, too.
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Sacha, in reply to
Loved your falafel, innovatively
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
He ate my falafel, too.
Did you make it yourself?
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Of course he made it himself. Russell isn't hidebound by a priori conceptions of felafel.
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