Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-1-2009

[andrewducker]

• No, I Will Not Molest Your Kids
  A reaction to the extreme care some people now take.
  (tags: children Child_abuse society)
• Marmaduke meets Cthulhu!
  (tags: comics funny cthulhu)
• An Artificial Heart That Doesn't Beat
  "You put this in cattle and they stand up and moo and eat and wonder why everyone is looking at them so weird," says William Cohn, a collaborator on the research and director of minimally invasive surgical technology at the Texas Heart Institute. "You see a cow wagging his tail and you say, wow, this is the future of the artificial heart."
  (tags: future technology science biology heart)
• French drop Polanski release call
  A drop of common sense.
  (tags: rape politics France)
• Comics Review: Alan Moore & Bill Sienkiewicz, Big Numbers 3
  Oh, what I'd pay for a completed Big Numbers.
  (tags: comics alan_moore BillSienkiewicz review)
• RAF leaflet box kills Afghan girl
  Now _that_'s not going to be winning any hearts or minds
  (tags: Irony EpicFail afghanistan)
• A list of people who think that raping 13-year-olds is fine, if you make movies.
  (tags: polanski rape EpicFail)
• PC tune-up software: less effective than spending the cash on RAM
  (tags: software windows memory)
• Online advertising overtakes TV advertising in the UK
  Now that was unexpected.
  (tags: internet advertising tv)

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

His guilt or innocence have absolutely nothing to do with my feelings about his arrest. His crimes or alleged crimes have nothing to do with it either.

I don't believe there were politics in the background. I believe there were politics in the foreground, and so I don't feel justice is being done.

[andrewducker]

I'm not convinced that justice is being done by not returning him for trial either. In any case I believe that having him stand trial, in the full spotlight so as to ensure transparency, is the correct thing to do.

The petition also doesn't say "There is politics afoot, he will not get a fair trial!", it says "He was going to a film convention, if you start arresting people on their way to film conventions who knows where it will end?" - the first is defensible, the second doesn't seem defensible at all.