E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a tech blog at Forbes. Visit his politics blog here. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant. You can also contact him via email.
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If you can’t provide your papers when the authorities ask for them, what do you expect will happen?
No kidding. Walking is not a right, after all.
It’s all well and good to talk about “freedom” but what if he were a suicide bomber?
He was playing music back when Bill Ayers was blowing things up. Coincidence?
Hell he probably even associated with guys who said bad things about America
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.
If you have to be “released” then you were arrested.
“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.
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?
The Russians and Germans had terms for this. Maybe we can use the word they used.
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
Oh indeed. The irony is lyrical.
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!
The truth is that Dylan should have been arrested a long, long time ago for blowing out our poor minds, through his poetry. Long live to Bob Dylan!
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