But he seemed so nice...
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Every now and then the police arrest somebody suspected of some terrible, violent crime, and as a piece of public relations they'll announce all of the horrible books, movies and/or CDs they found in the suspect's house, as if to prove that the suspect is obviously guilty and horrible and monstrous.
So here is my challenge to you. You can either do this from memory or take a moment to look through your book and music collections, and then answer this question:
Name ten books, CDs and/or movies that you own that the police would cite as evidence against you at their press conference.
Well, there's the porn. Including several autographed books by Carol Queen. And several short stories by Margaret Weller that are autographed.
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Several US Army Field Manuals on improvised weapons and explosives.
A couple of comics on guerilla warfare and how to build boobytraps printed by the Chines to distribute to insurgents as training aids (pucked up at a gun show years ago, wish I'd been able to afford the whole set)
The IWW songbook
And likely other things I haven't thought of.
Then there are the sex toys, BDSM gear (some of which they are going to report as stuff for torture and interrogation).
And all the stuff on the computers. Heck, I've got a system that runs Linux and another that runs OS/2. The cops tried using that sort of thing as evidence that someone was a hacker in a case recently (the courts finally threw out the warrant but...)
Oh yeah, the practice grenade and the "clacker" (device used to trigger claymores and other boobytraps. And the sword, and the...
kightp)Every now and then the police arrest somebody suspected of some terrible, violent crime, and as a piece of public relations they'll announce all of the horrible books, movies and/or CDs they found in the suspect's house, as if to prove that the suspect is obviously guilty and horrible and monstrous.
So here is my challenge to you. You can either do this from memory or take a moment to look through your book and music collections, and then answer this question:
Name ten books, CDs and/or movies that you own that the police would cite as evidence against you at their press conference.
Well, there's the porn. Including several autographed books by Carol Queen. And several short stories by Margaret Weller that are autographed.
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Several US Army Field Manuals on improvised weapons and explosives.
A couple of comics on guerilla warfare and how to build boobytraps printed by the Chines to distribute to insurgents as training aids (pucked up at a gun show years ago, wish I'd been able to afford the whole set)
The IWW songbook
And likely other things I haven't thought of.
Then there are the sex toys, BDSM gear (some of which they are going to report as stuff for torture and interrogation).
And all the stuff on the computers. Heck, I've got a system that runs Linux and another that runs OS/2. The cops tried using that sort of thing as evidence that someone was a hacker in a case recently (the courts finally threw out the warrant but...)
Oh yeah, the practice grenade and the "clacker" (device used to trigger claymores and other boobytraps. And the sword, and the...
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Date: 2009-06-23 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-23 10:59 pm (UTC)I have a drawing instruction book with illustrations of how human proportions change with age. That's obviously child porn. :-(
RPG manuals, one of which I wrote.
_Anarchist Cookbook_ and several similar texts. (Note that many of these will get you quickly dead if you do what they say.)
Four Bibles (around here the damning point would be that two of them aren't King James).
Books on supernatural stuff. (Folklore, myths, etc.)
And on and on...
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Date: 2009-06-23 11:44 pm (UTC)I forgot the Koran. And the Book of Mormon.
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Date: 2009-06-23 11:48 pm (UTC)This doesn't count other items I will not describe, invoking my 5th Amendment right.
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Date: 2009-06-24 04:39 am (UTC)'Learning teh Ropes' by Race Bannon
'120 Days of Sodom' (DeSade)
The Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice
Clive Barker's 'Books of Blood'
Malfeas for Exalted 2E
Infernals for Exalted 2E
I own Vampire, Werewolf and Changeling, from White Wolf
Movies:
Equilibrium
Music: everything by Inkkubus, Sukkubus :>
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Date: 2009-06-24 08:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-24 11:09 am (UTC)If you are a good girl, I'll let you read a few things. :-)
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Date: 2009-06-25 02:14 am (UTC)My CD collection involves everything Marilyn Manson put out in the 90's, as well as a large selection of Black Sabbath. Those would be the only incriminating-by-association things in my collection, although they may point to my Rasputina CDs as something a grown man shouldn't have. Whatever.
Books-wise, I have a number of books on the history of hacking, no small selection of organized-crime novels, and a few dry books on present/future wars in the US. I do not own a Bible of any sort. That in itself, thankfully, is not unacceptable around here.
I mostly don't own any movies, I just borrow them from people. One of the few movies I do have is a downloaded Japanese-market version of "Versus".
The TV is not connected to cable or satellite or anything like that, which is clearly a sign of mental illness and subversive behavior.
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Date: 2009-06-28 06:09 am (UTC)