Thanks MM, to combat the Bush Police State -- it looks like those in public who feel liable to unconstitutional arrest, should get to know an investigative reporter with the news desk of the local media. By prearrangement if the call comes in sounding like you're calling a lawyer it's a police-state incident in progress. Still acting as if you're talking to a lawyer, state the incident and location, and news reporters can videotape their arrival at the police station, and let everyone involved know about it.
Alternatively, several lawyers in town should make such arrangements with news people, so if they get such a call, they can notify news crews to show up at the same time.
After approximately an hour of interrogation, Maginnis was allowed to make a telephone call. Rather than contacting a lawyer, he called the Denver Post and asked for the news desk. This was immediately overheard by the desk sergeant, who hung up the phone and placed Maginnis in a holding cell
Of course, the implications in this story are much larger, since "Agent Willse" charged that Maginnis was a terrorist, immediately jeopardizing his ability to talk to anyone. At that point, the Bush Terrorist legislation allowed him to refuse Maginnis any contact with anyone. Theoretically, he could have been secretly removed, tried, convicted and even executed, without anyone knowing where he was, and without any evidence presented to him in open court.
I.e., he could have been "disappeared", as they said in Stalin's time. |
