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0 pointsprotomyth12y ago0 comments

> I think if you answered politely and explained why you're unwilling to talk to them about their issue it wouldn't be as easy to misconstrue as suspicious.

If they are talking to you given the time management the job requires, you are already suspicious.

If there is one thing I learned from growing up on a reservation is that the only response to the FBI is "I will not talk unless my lawyer is present and s/he advises me to talk".

// if a Federal Marshall wants to talk, you are screwed

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drivingmenuts12y ago· 2 in thread

> if a Federal Marshall wants to talk, you are screwed

What's the difference here? Marshalls aren't required to allow you to get a lawyer? They skip straight to waterboarding? Talk your ears literally off?

protomythOP12y ago

They are generally there on someone's orders (e.g. a Federal Judge) and will be arresting someone. It might be a different experience for others, but that's pretty much all I've ever seen them do.

meowface12y ago

Then you let them cuff you and drive you away, and refuse to answer any questions without a lawyer. No matter what they do, they can't make you talk.

kefka12y ago· 2 in thread

What makes a federal marshal "screw-worthy"?

Any law enforcement you didn't call seems to all be pretty bad.

protomythOP12y ago

Their talking points are: are you X? if yes, you are under arrest else go to next person. They have a mission not an investigation.

kefka12y ago

I guess I see that more as a feature of a federal marshal.

The others will chum up with you and do all sorts of tricks to 'make you talk'. If they do as you say, there's no BS like that. You're either under arrest or you aren't.

And, I respect that.

dragonwriter12y ago· 1 in thread

> If they are talking to you given the time management the job requires, you are already suspicious.

Or they think that you are likely to have evidence of a crime and have no suspicion at all about you. Its pretty hard to investigate any crime if your view of "time management" requires you not to talk to anyone expect suspects.

protomythOP12y ago

I just get the feeling that "computer crimes" tend to have everyone as doing something wrong.

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