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#1011. Perjantai, 25. helmikuuta 2005 klo 11.20.56, kirjoittanut Jani. 4 kommenttia.

(Lue sama suo­mek­si.) #

My emo­tions on this mat­ter cur­rent­ly are a bizar­re mix­tu­re of kaf­kaesque and dos­to­jevs­kian, which is a sti­mu­la­ting, yet unwelco­me chan­ge from my nor­mal, day-to-day mix­tu­re of depres­sion and numb­ness. When I got the first e-mail infor­ming me of the situa­tion, the­re was an immen­se rush of adre­na­lin, natu­ral­ly fol­lowing the para­noid sen­se of sud­den­ly being threa­te­ned. I am still hap­py of having got the infor­ma­tion via e-mail, though, since who knows how bad­ly I might have panic­ked and done and said somet­hing comple­te­ly stu­pid and unhel­ping for my case, had I been told this over the pho­ne by the police­man. #

Ini­tial­ly, still a litt­le mixed up, I felt as if my life was about to chan­ge for good; I used to be clean, but from hereon I would be a cri­mi­nal, bran­ded as an out­si­der of socie­ty and a loser for life. You’­ve been naugh­ty, you’­ve been bad! Then, as I began going through web­pa­ges for fin­ding attor­neys and the pos­sible legal rea­sons for the police­man’s demands, a litt­le sen­se began to creep back in to my head; so may­be I’d fuc­ked up, what would be the worst thing that could hap­pen? I couldn’t belie­ve I could go to jail, even though that too is the­re­tical­ly enti­re­ly pos­sible, accor­ding to cur­rent Fin­nish legis­la­tion. I’d pro­bably be fined ins­tead. It was a relie­ving thought, since, well, it is just money, not like all my rights and indi­vi­dua­li­ty would be strip­ped from me and I’d have to live behind walls and bars. #

I had to go shop­ping, not for anyt­hing, real­ly, but just to see what it would be like to be among other people, now that I was a poten­tial cri­mi­nal. Would they see it? Would they be able to tell from my face, from my clot­hing that this man is now under inves­ti­ga­tion by the police, this man is not like us, who are clean and law-abi­ding citizens, pro­per mem­bers of socie­ty? You can’t help being para­noid in a situa­tion like this; you keep loo­king at people, trying to see if they recog­nize you, if they’­re thin­king they should say somet­hing to me, to sup­port me or to mock me, may­be even attack me for I had bro­ken their rules. (Note that alt­hough I am depres­sed, I’m not para­noid in any cli­nical way.) #

I’ve since been overw­hel­med by people’s reac­tions after having pos­ted about this seve­ral times; I’ve tried not to beg for for­gi­vance of my sin, my cri­me — see how you begin to feel that way alrea­dy when only being inves­ti­ga­ted for somet­hing, which someo­ne else, who’s tech­nical­ly only equal to you, not abo­ve you, has said you’­ve done — I’ve only tried to make the best of the situa­tion and tell people about it, since I know it’s inte­res­ting (I would be deeply inte­res­ted about this, even if I wasn’t the one being inves­ti­ga­ted), and also, since very quickly after pos­ting the police­man’s e-mails, it began to seem that I wasn’t alo­ne in my asto­nish­ment over his demands for remo­ving mate­rial from my site. #

Even if the officer in ques­tion has made a mis­ta­ke, that doesn’t nul­li­fy the enti­re case against me, of cour­se. It’s just anot­her inte­res­ting and impor­tant from the free­dom-of-speech point of view twist in this who­le busi­ness. I’m hoping people won’t mix the­se in their minds, since they only might set them­sel­ves up for a disap­point­ment that way. I’m hoping I won’t mix the­se in my mind. I’m not saying I think I’ll be found guil­ty, since cur­rent­ly I have no idea what they (the police) will think or do about my doings. I just know that as long as this thing drags on, I’ll pro­bably keep fee­ling para­noid, filt­hy and distrust­ful among people. But hey, that’s just me. #

 
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  1. #990. Perjantai, 25. helmikuuta 2005 klo 12.56.05, kirjoittanut Phil.
    Phil

    I hope you’­re not serious­ly belie­ving you com­mit­ted a real cri­me or a “sin”. You shouldn’t be asha­med or embar­ra­sed for what you did. Eve­ry­one should have the right to free speech on their own blog, on their own pro­per­ty. If the Fin­nish aut­ho­ri­ties disagree with this then that’s a sha­me, Fin­nish socie­ty has just moved one step clo­ser to tota­li­ta­ria­nism. I think the Fin­nish govern­ment pro­bably agrees with Geor­ge Bush when he said, “The­re should be limits to freedom.”

  2. #991. Perjantai, 25. helmikuuta 2005 klo 13.52.45, kirjoittanut Jani.
    Jani

    Phil: I honest­ly don’t have a clue as to what I should belie­ve, so I focused my text on how I feel. And I do feel, well, if not enti­re­ly cri­mi­nal, then pos­sibly the clo­sest thing would be fee­ling like a “poten­tial cri­mi­nal” (which I sort of am right now) - and that’s pro­bably not very easi­ly gras­ped unless you’­ve been the­re. I hope you’­re right about my having the right to have spo­ken my mind and not be punis­hed for it, but simply being under such sus­picions qui­te out of the blue makes you wor­ry about things that might not even be there.

    As for your quo­te from GWB… well, I guess the­re should pro­bably be limits to stu­pi­di­ty, as well.

  3. #992. Maanantai, 28. helmikuuta 2005 klo 22.13.47, kirjoittanut Victor Abellón.
    Victor Abellón

    Hi
    Name’s Vic­tor. I’m in char­ge of the Spa­nish Branch of the Com­mit­tee for the Por­tec­tion of Blog­gers (cpbes.blogspot.com)
    We placed a post about your case. But we lack more details.

    Will you give us some more details about your situa­tion? Can the Polcie clo­se down a blog in Fin­land? Isn’t it antoconstitutional?
    In Spain only a jud­ge can clo­se down a site.
    Can you ela­bo­ra­te a litt­le bit further?

    Thanks a lot and kitos (with Fin­nish vod­ka off course)
    .vic­tor

  4. #993. Maanantai, 28. helmikuuta 2005 klo 23.11.25, kirjoittanut Jani.
    Jani

    Hel­lo, Vic­tor! Thank you for your pos­ting on this issue. Concer­ning your ques­tions, no, the police are not aut­ho­rized to tell me to remo­ve posts (as they did), let alo­ne clo­se down my blog wit­hout a court order. So with the kind help of Mr. Kil­pi of the Enter magazi­ne, complaints are being filed to Fin­nish aut­ho­ri­ties (the ones I recent­ly lis­ted in my com­ment elsew­he­re in this blog) dea­ling with lega­li­ty issues wit­hin law enforcement.

    The actions by the police in my case need to be told apart from the inqui­ry into my actions; even if the way the police hand­led the situa­tion may have been flawed, per­haps even uncons­ti­tu­tio­nal, it being ack­now­led­ged as such by the hig­her aut­ho­ri­ties men­tio­ned wouldn’t make the case against me go away. The police will still inves­ti­ga­te me and deter­mi­ne whet­her or not the things I’ve writ­ten are rea­son enough for them to actual­ly file char­ges against me. The worst case sce­na­rio: they find that they have a case, char­ge me and I’ll be fined (alt­hough I guess a jail sen­tece is tech­nical­ly not enti­re­ly exclu­ded, I con­si­der it high­ly unli­ke­ly). The best case sce­na­rio: the inves­ti­ga­tion will be drop­ped for one rea­son or anot­her. In eit­her case, the who­le process may take a long time (seve­ral months even) to finish.

    Apart from this, I don’t know what else I can tell you, but I’d be hap­py to ela­bo­ra­te even more, should have more speci­fic ques­tions. Note though, that IANAL, so anyt­hing I say is based on my ave­ra­ge Fin­nish citizen’s know­led­ge on the­se issues (and what I can read from the legal texts), with the friend­ly help and bac­king of opi­nions from people who I con­si­der more awa­re of the­se things than myself.

    After sto­ring your cor­rect e-mail address, I took the liber­ty of hiding your lat­ter com­ment so as to pro­tect you from bots pic­king it up for pur­po­ses of unso­lici­ted e-mail.

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