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The Possessed

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

(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. #

 

What we’re dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law

#1010. Torstai, 24. helmikuuta 2005 klo 20.45.46, kirjoittanut Jani.

I was asked by Phil of Fin­land for Thought to wri­te somet­hing about my cur­rent situa­tion invol­ving the police and the ongoing inqui­ry into my (alle­ged) defa­ma­tion of character[alaviite]Thanks to Ant­ti or more speci­fical­ly to his Scot­tish friend for the legal term in English for kun­nian­louk­kaus.[/alaviite], in English.

Back in Novem­ber I hap­pe­ned to hear about the scan­da­lous events sur­roun­ding the ele­men­ta­ry school of Kori­vaa­ra; appa­rent­ly, the children in the school were being ter­ro­rized by a deeply reli­gious head­mas­ter and his fel­low teac­hers (sum­ma­rized in English by The Butt Ugly Weblog).I’ve recor­ded some of the news cove­ring the issue by Kaleva.plus; so far Fin­nish only, sor­ry. I was amazed by not only such events being pos­sible in modern-day Fin­land, but by the fact that the who­le issue see­med to cause not­hing more than a few head­li­nes and some sha­king of heads in dis­be­lief. #

I wit­nes­sed head­mas­ter Pöy­ry him­self dis­miss all char­ges against him, appea­ling - in a man­ner which to me could not have been more dis­gus­ting - to the fact that the children had “repea­ted­ly given him good feed­back”.The same repul­si­ve the­me of the children “pro­ving” Pöy­ry’s innocence came up again after the big­gest stir had pas­sed. (That’s what children go to school for, to give their teac­hers gra­des, right?) #

The children’s parents, who came forward with their wor­ries about what’s going on in their school, have repor­ted the children as being frigh­te­ned for them­sel­ves and their loved ones (for the chance of going to Hell, IIRC) and having prayed com­pul­si­ve­ly as their means of trying to make it bet­ter. This to me spel­led the children had been seve­re­ly brainwas­hed and mani­pu­la­ted, thus making any refe­rences to their “liking” their head­mas­ter not­hing more than expres­sions of deeply roo­ted fear of cri­ticizing his aut­ho­ri­ty. #

And not­hing hap­pe­ned. The issue was bounced around by aut­ho­ri­ties, until the report by an inde­pen­dent psyc­ho­lo­gist, pro­ving the children suf­fer from anxie­ty and fear, was dis­mis­sed by the sta­te pro­vincial office of Oulu, and Pöy­ry along with the rest of the school per­son­nel was basical­ly clea­red of almost any wrong­doing. #

But my peak of tole­rance had alrea­dy been reac­hed. I had pos­ted my rough idea of what I think of Pöy­ry and his “met­hods of upbrin­ging” onto my blog, not once but many times. I’d said it straight as well as indi­rect­ly. #

Then yes­ter­day, I got an e-mail from a police officer of the city of Oulu police, infor­ming of me of an inqui­ry for defa­ma­tion of cha­rac­ter, reques­ted by Pöy­ry. In addi­tion to tel­ling me the local (Jyväs­ky­lä) police would inter­ro­ga­te me about this, the­re was a demand for the mate­rial regar­ding Pöy­ry to be remo­ved from my site. The­re was no rea­son (or a law) given for this, neit­her was the­re any men­tio­ning of a court order having been issued (and I haven’t been deli­ve­red one), which to my unders­tan­ding is requi­red in Fin­land for the police to be able to tell me to do this. #

So I asked the police­man for the rea­sons, as well as the speci­fic parts of my site he was refer­ring to (since I had writ­ten about the issue seve­ral times). Today he replied, refer­ring to a law which covers .fi-domains. As you can see, mine is .net. And even if it was .fi, as far as I can tell, the law in ques­tion doesn’t entit­le the police to order me to cen­sor my words. #

This time he did single out the speci­fic texts I had to remo­ve, so I did that, since I guess it’s not a valid rea­son not to do what the police tell you to, even if their rea­sons for tel­ling you to do so seem to be full of shit. Whet­her they are, that’s for a hig­her aut­ho­ri­ty to deci­de, and that’s exact­ly what Tuo­mas Kil­pi, the edi­tor of anot­her Fin­nish blog and a com­pu­ter magazi­ne asked them to do (for which I’m very gra­te­ful to him). As for me, I’ve reques­ted Elect­ro­nic Fron­tier Fin­land for their com­ments on this. #

I’ve not yet been to a hea­ring, but am expec­ting to, since the officer in ques­tion did pho­ne me after I had infor­med him of having done the remo­vals he’d asked me (he’d found anot­her copy - from his brow­ser’s cac­he), and thus veri­fied him­self as being for real (even though the hea­ders and eve­ryt­hing see­med to be valid, with e-mail you never know) and having infor­med the local police about the mat­ter. #

25.2. 11:25 Fixed a typo.
21.5. 2007 22:17 Remo­ved dead links to Enter magazi­ne blog and Kaleva.plus. Moder­nized the sty­le and tech­niques used. Remo­ved quo­ta­tion marks from around the title. 

Lyhyt tilannepäivitys

#1009. Torstai, 24. helmikuuta 2005 klo 15.22.32, kirjoittanut Jani.

Tapaus­ta­ni on seu­rat­tu mie­len­kiin­nol­la mm. Enter­blo­gin (ja -leh­den) Tuo­mas Kil­ven tahol­ta, joka on epäit­sek­kääs­ti ja kii­tet­tä­väs­ti koet­ta­nut sel­vit­tää polii­sin toi­min­nan perus­tei­ta tilan­tees­sa. Itse lähe­tin juu­ri EFFI:lle säh­kö­pos­tia, jos­sa pyy­sin heil­tä näke­myk­siä asias­ta. #

Seu­raan tilan­teen kehit­ty­mis­tä ja pidän tei­dät ajan tasal­la. Ja mitäs mui­ta kli­sei­tä tähän vie­lä kek­si­si. #

Ai niin, mai­nit­ta­koon, että tuos­sa uuden WordPres­sin whi­te­lis­tin­gis­sä on kai joku häik­kä, kun se arpoo satun­nai­ses­ti kom­ment­te­ja mode­roi­ta­vik­si vaik­ka olen otta­nut sen pois pääl­tä ase­tuk­sis­ta. Eli vaik­ka tääl­lä teks­te­jä sen­su­roi­daan­kin polii­sin pai­nos­tuk­sen takia, niin kom­ment­te­ja ei sen­su­roi­da vaan ne ovat vain mode­roin­ti­jo­nos­sa, jos nii­tä ei näy. #

 

It’s for real

#1008. Torstai, 24. helmikuuta 2005 klo 13.58.00, kirjoittanut Jani.

Voi tämän elä­män hul­lun­ku­ris­ta ris­ti­rii­tai­suut­ta ja moder­nin tie­to­tek­nii­kan mur­hei­ta. Rikos­kons­taa­pe­li Tuu­las soit­ti juu­ri ja ker­toi löy­tä­neen­sä vie­lä yhden jo pois­ta­mis­ta­ni teks­teis­tä. Kysees­sä oli kui­ten­kin vain selai­men väli­muis­tis­ta tul­lut van­hen­tu­nut kopio, jon­ka hävit­tä­mi­seen polii­sin­kin konees­ta riit­ti yksin­ker­tai­nen sivun päi­vi­tys. #

Se mur­heis­ta, sit­ten nii­tä ris­ti­rii­to­ja: Tuu­las vai­kut­ti täs­sä puhe­lus­sa erit­täin, erit­täin asial­li­sel­ta mie­hel­tä (juu­ri sel­lai­sel­ta kuin ensim­mäi­ses­sä vies­tis­sään­kin), niin että minus­ta tun­tuu suo­ras­taan pahal­ta, että mies on nyt jou­tu­nut täl­lai­seen väli­kä­teen. Jäl­kim­mäi­sen vies­tin­sä tul­kit­se­mi­nen vinoi­luk­si voi joh­tua pel­käs­tään van­has­ta kun­non “kir­joi­te­tun teks­tin ilmeet­tö­myys aiheut­taa vää­rin­kä­si­tyk­siä” -ilmiös­tä. Pitäi­si­kö polii­sei­den kou­lu­tuk­seen sisäl­lyt­tää hymiöi­den käyt­tö? #

Jyväs­ky­län polii­sil­le on kuu­lem­ma tie­to täs­tä läh­te­nyt, eli että käyn siel­lä sit­ten jos­sain vai­hees­sa haas­tat­te­lus­sa. #

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[muokkaus][klo]14:24[/klo] Lin­ki­tin mai­nit­tui­hin viesteihin.[/muokkaus]
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Poliisipostia 2

#1007. Torstai, 24. helmikuuta 2005 klo 12.06.58, kirjoittanut Jani.

Tari­na jat­kuu. Voi polii­si-polois­ta. #

Subject: Ilkka Pöyry 2
From: "Tuulas Jani" 
Date: 24 Feb 2005 09:55:00 +0200
To: jani@mummila.net

Hei!


Kyllä vaikutat viisastelijalta. Kerron kuitenkin lainkohdan minkä perusteella vaadin sinua poistamaan osioita sivustoiltasi: Verkkotunnuslaki 11§.


Poista Sinisen kirjan marginaalissa oleva Ilkka Pöyryn TV 2:n ohjelmasta otettu kuva ja sen yhteydessä oleva teksti: "Pöyry perkele pitäisi nylkeä elävänä..." Poista tähän kuvaan liittyvä kommentit: 2 -teksti: "...olen silti tällaista harjoittavasta ihmissaastasta sitä mieltä..." Mikäli seuraavat kirjoitukset vielä ovat sivustoillasi, on ne myös poistettava: "5D: 15 vuotta Muhoksesta (Visio 2)" ja "Silmin näkijä: 15 vuotta Muhoksesta (Visio 1)".

Jani Tuulas
vanhempi rikoskonstapeli
Oulun kihlakunnan poliisilaitos
p. 08-3137 359

Sil­lä välin kun minä sen­su­roin noi­ta, voit­te vaik­ka tut­kia, mitä Verk­ko­lain 11 §:ssä sano­taan. Siel­lä ei aina­kaan minun näh­däk­se­ni sano­ta mitään polii­sin oikeuk­sis­ta, eli ehkä­pä viit­taus sii­hen on tul­kit­ta­va nyt sik­si “taik­ka muu­ten” -uhak­si. Toi­sin sanoen jos en pois­ta noi­ta vaa­dit­tu­ja koh­tia (jot­ka nyt sen­tään minul­le ker­ro­taan), minun sait­ti­ni sul­je­taan koko­naan. #

Kii­tok­sia kom­men­teis­ta ja saa­mas­ta­ni pos­tis­ta, palaan nii­hin mah­dol­li­sim­man pian! #

20 minuut­tia myö­hem­min: Yksi, kak­si ja kol­me, it is done. Jos nyt vaik­ka pesi­si ham­paat ja söi­si aamiais­ta täl­le­kin päi­väl­le. Ikään kuin sil­lä mitään väliä oli­si. #