How to handle harrassment

[sankara]

hello,
I don't know if this remark can be applied everywhere (since it is an international forum)but where I live you are not obliged to go to Wall Mart 'babylon' or any such corporate nightmare. Here, there are organic groceries, I barely go to a shopping mall once a year...This kind of grocery has been a resistance in my country, for years...It is probable that this part of the economy will be severly injured with crisis, we'll see.

As to the possiblity to dominate one's anger and because this thread has been posted in 'The Work' I might suggest that, even if I do agree with Gurdjiev's point of view on the dangerosity of breathing exercice to acquire some 'power', we might learn how handle the chemistry of emotions.
I refer to the G's point of view because, from my own experience, we can only do it tru learning to master (undertsand)breathing. In that case, if we have done some "working exercices" we can go 'inward', in our belly, diaphragm...and breathing. The "I" might take the control again.
But still, Kenlee, it might get raugher.
I must also add that, until there is another Psyop of large scale, the Frenchs have not been brainwashed in the intensity the US citizens. Many people are still very receptive to non-psychopatic socio-politic-phylosophical argues. Once this reception has been done, I could check that the person will be mor likely to act and think 'normaly'.

 

[sankara]

Kenlee
I must add that in the airport situation, I had no right whatsoever except complying. This must be understood. I only dared to call on my interlocutor's common sense. The person might have answered the usual:"I am just enforcing the rules, complain to a higher degree..."(this is somehow what happened, the interesting fact is that the woman in charge of the search, called her superior)
If I hadn't try to talk to the person with reason, this situation would never have happened in 'all the dimensions of the universe.'

Respect

 

[Pierre]

Its only Governments - or their agencies that can basically do what they like (because they make the law). Companies and other citizens have to abide by it or.... they get fined or taken to court.

But there are less and less differences between governments and companies. That's the fundamental of fascism where companies and government colludes aloowing a corporatist elite to steal/coerce/exploit/... the people.

So, I'm afraid that powerful companies like governments and the rest of the apex of the power pyramid are usually above the laws.

In the "shock doctrine", Naomi Klein describes perfectly how much power MNCs have on legal, political and media spheres.

When you think about the number of health disasters induced by agrofood and pharmaceutical companies, the number of dictatorial regimes supported by oil companies, the number of crisis, lies and illegal deals engineered by banks,... without triggering any condamnation or only very symbolic ones, it becomes quite obvious that MNCs are not treated like the average citizen as far as the law is concerned.

Because to a large extend MNCs and major banks are the one who really make the laws.

Blackwater, Haliburton, Monsanto, JP Morgan, Exxon, Pfizer, to only quote a few, have criminal CVs that would send any citizen straight to jail for millenia.

But they are still peacefully operating, making billions of profit, destroying the planet, exploiting and killing people.

 

[bedower]

In this country (Canada) absolutely no one except the police are allowed to search someone's person. Even if a store has solid evidence that you have shoplifted (e.g. videotape), they are only allowed to detain you and call the police.

The same in Britain (or was up until 1999, the last time I was there).

If you are detained and searched without reasonable evidence, you can sue for false arrest and search.

This also used to be true, although now in Britain the government have given extra powers to a new breed of law enforcement called 'special constables'. These people are not police as such, merely ordinary citizens on a power trip. They get to wear a badge, I believe. It would be made very difficult to sue them, imo.

My method is not taking bags into stores.

What about if it's a woman's handbag? On only one occasion, in Britain a few years ago, was I stopped for a handbag search as I was leaving a shop. Even though I had nothing in my bag that was not my own personal property, I refused, and requested that the management call the police. As soon as I mentioned the police, they decided that a bag search wasn't really necessary. This was well before the 'war of terror'.

On two occasions here in Egypt, I have been requested to leave my handbag with the security guard; once before going into a main sale hall at a church fete (British-run), and once before going into the AUC bookshop (American-run). I refused both times, and was allowed inside WITH my handbag. Shopping bags, yes with pleasure, but not my handbag.

Imo, the PTB and other corporations are going too far with these random and intrusive searches of people's personal belongings, although at airports it seems pretty mandatory now - 'no search, no fly' sort of thing. Same with embassies,I've heard. (The British embassy is an absolute nightmare!)

This is a very pertinent thread in these times. So many average jane and joe citizens don't know their rights, and would comply with these searches thinking they HAVE to comply, osit.

The more people who refuse these illegal searches, and the more people who overhear the refusals and decide to follow suit, the better! Fwiw.