[sudo-discuss] It's Unconscionable

[Eddan]

Though I think the tone should be very respectful, it seems to me that this
should be a letter directed at the Police Chief. The way Quan put it in
this article as a citizen science thing is a lot more respectable a
position, in my opinion.

It seems to me that it is most imperative to respond most directly to his
assertion that Workshop Weekend has a class "to teach people a skill to
violate the law". It is carefully enough worded that it is not claiming
that the workshop or the teachers are doing anything illegal. So I think it
best to make the distinction very clear between the skill and the criminal
intent to burglarize.


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:51 PM, J.D. Zamfirescu <zamfire at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've started writing one, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the issue!
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Eddan <eddan at clear.net> wrote:
>
>> Now, this requires a response. Has anybody started drafting something? If
>> not, I will.
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Howard+Jordan%22> was
>> not pleased.
>>
>>
>> "I'm in shock that people would provide a class to teach people a skill
>> to violate the law," Jordan said. "It's unconscionable."
>>
>>
>> Lock-pick instructor Michael Fitzhugh<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Michael+Fitzhugh%22> is
>> a member of TOOOL (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers<http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Open+Organisation+Of+Lockpickers%22>),
>> a Netherlands-based outfit that teaches and holds national and
>> international lock-picking events annually. In their world, lock picking is
>> done for sport and bragging rights. But, he says, it's also a useful tool
>> if you lock yourself out of your home.
>>
>>
>> Jordan has a more conventional solution to that problem: "Call
>> a locksmith!"
>>
>>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Quan-s-wrong-note-on-lock-picking-class-4318130.php
>>
>>
>> Even worse than Quan, this guy's so desperate to change the subject about
>> the incompetence of the OPD in news story after news story.
>>
>>
>> Unconscionable!?! This coming from a police department that was about to
>> go into an unprecedented federal receivership for its failure to reform;
>> not to mention a police department seared with a global reputation for
>> brutality, racism, and excessive means; and whose fundamental
>> miscalculations and mismanagement of the response to Occupy cost the city
>> millions of dollars.
>>
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