Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison

[chris]

Yea- the circumstances were very different in that case. Ian Murdock sadly  
had problems. I've got no mental health issues to report. Even during the  
worst of health conditions I had a number of years ago for which would cause  
anybody to want to commit suicide I was not suicidal. The problem I had  
warranted suicide if not resolved quickly and just thinking about it puts  
chills down my spine. I did not want to die even if I knew I could not live  
with the pain (I had/have a neurological condition which was at the time  
causing the most severe constant pain you can't even imagine and no  
medication would relieve it, the pain was so bad as to keep me huddled in a  
ball for days on end without sleep, I ended up in the emergency room three  
times in two days, and it took one of three specialists in pain management in  
the country putting me on a cocktail of drugs to dull the pain enough to keep  
living... the pain was lulled to a constant dull pain for about a year on the  
drug cocktail and then another year after I got off the drugs.. from time to  
time I have certain symptoms that freak me out where I get certain pain that  
was a symptom, but fortunately it has not come back, possibly because I take  
pretty good care of myself now, relative to the insane sleep pattern and a  
general deprivation of sleep I put myself through to get funds for getting  
ThinkPenguin off the ground.. fortunately I was only out of commission for  
three months and I had an old friend who managed to step in and help out with  
keeping the business afloat during this time).

Humorously I realized just how normalized I've gotten to confronting abusive  
and illegal police behaviour on the street. Despite that I've never been  
arrested I noticed that I lacked any adrenalin rush this night. My heart was  
not beating severely during any part of the incident, arrest, handcuffing,  
being put into a transport vehicle, booking, caging, intimidation, mocking  
(they made fun of my hearing issue and numerous offices insulted me, calling  
be a "free stater", and illegally labelling me a "free stater", which  
apparently is my "gang affiliation"), etc.