Peter Watts, a Canadian citizen, was subject to a beating and arrest by U.S. border guards on Tuesday when he was detained by the aforementioned authorities at the U.S.-Canada border. On top of the beating and pepper spraying that he received, he was additionally charged with "assaulting a federal officer", a felony rap that carries a mandatory 2 year sentence in a federal prison, if convicted.
Peter Watts, who has previously worked on Homeworld 2, is currently serving as a writer and art consultant on Crysis 2 and is the author of the Hugo-award-nominated science fiction novel, Blindsight.
There are many people in places of authority who abuses their power. Just sad. At least that guy got some headlines(sort of)...
What about the simple(non-famous)guy who gets busted and beaten up. Nobody will hear about it...which leaves the aggressors more reasons to gloat and continue to abuse their power.
But I wonder...was this guy trying to be a smartass with the officers?
Difficult for me to imagine they would go berserk on him because he innocently asked for the reason of the search.
However being a smartass is not good enough of a reason to get such treatment.
People abuse their power because they know they are going to get away with it.
It's simple as that, and that almost everyone's a spastic fucking arsehole.
You know what makes standing up to these fucking assholes even more difficult? It's not the power they hold, it's the fucking cowards walking with you. I know it from personal experience. I can't tolerate cowards.
Peter Watts overheard a couple of border guards talk about their next D2 character builds. Peter decided to stick his head out of the window of the car and yell ''HOW IS 1.13 GOING?!?! HAHA!!!'' The guards were empowered by the anger of the D2 fanbase and whirlwind the shit out of Peter (along with some pepper spray).
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"allegedly attacked"
Basically those border police get out of hand really easy, so it's hard to say what really happened.
His story is though, he got out of the car and asked why he was being searched, and they beat him. (which honestly wouldn't surprise me)
Like I said Border Police are known for taking things too far too fast.
You can read his account of what happened here.
What about the simple(non-famous)guy who gets busted and beaten up. Nobody will hear about it...which leaves the aggressors more reasons to gloat and continue to abuse their power.
But I wonder...was this guy trying to be a smartass with the officers?
Difficult for me to imagine they would go berserk on him because he innocently asked for the reason of the search.
However being a smartass is not good enough of a reason to get such treatment.
You know what makes standing up to these fucking assholes even more difficult? It's not the power they hold, it's the fucking cowards walking with you. I know it from personal experience. I can't tolerate cowards.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Peter Watts overheard a couple of border guards talk about their next D2 character builds. Peter decided to stick his head out of the window of the car and yell ''HOW IS 1.13 GOING?!?! HAHA!!!'' The guards were empowered by the anger of the D2 fanbase and whirlwind the shit out of Peter (along with some pepper spray).