Bob Dylan arrested!

by Erik Kain on August 17, 2009

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{ 14 comments }

1 Jaybird August 17, 2009 at 9:42 am

If you can’t provide your papers when the authorities ask for them, what do you expect will happen?

2 E.D. Kain August 17, 2009 at 9:46 am

No kidding. Walking is not a right, after all.

3 Jaybird August 17, 2009 at 10:34 am

It’s all well and good to talk about “freedom” but what if he were a suicide bomber?

4 E.D. Kain August 17, 2009 at 10:42 am: He was playing music back when Bill Ayers was blowing things up. Coincidence?

5 greginak August 17, 2009 at 10:54 am

Hell he probably even associated with guys who said bad things about America

6 Rick August 17, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Not to be picky, but the article says he wasn’t arrested. He was taken back to his hotel and released once he was identified by staff.

7 E.D. Kain August 17, 2009 at 12:07 pm: If you have to be “released” then you were arrested.

8 Rick August 17, 2009 at 12:23 pm

“Arrested” would mean charges are filed and you are taken downtown.

Believe me, I get it what you are trying to say but the headline is misleading. Prof. Gates was arrested. Bob Dylan was not. By the hassle factor alone, there is a huge difference.

9 E.D. Kain August 17, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Actually you can be arrested and released; arrested and then issued a ticket or an order to appear in court. You aren’t necessarily taken downtown. Trust me. I know people who have been arrested in this sense.

Beyond this – what does one call being detained by police and forced to go with them somewhere without being free to leave? Is there a term for this?

10 Jaybird August 17, 2009 at 12:37 pm: The Russians and Germans had terms for this. Maybe we can use the word they used.

11 mw August 17, 2009 at 12:40 pm

I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says hes got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
Its somethin you did
God knows when
But you’re doin it again

12 E.D. Kain August 17, 2009 at 12:43 pm: Oh indeed. The irony is lyrical.
13 Bob Cheeks August 20, 2009 at 4:35 am: mw, thanks, I’ve been waiting forty years for someone to give me this line: “Badge out, laid off..”
Now I can sing the whole damn song!

14 Patricia August 24, 2009 at 5:56 am