It allows users to create an aggregated video channels from multiple video sites and turn it into a widget as well.

so sweet of you to post that blog about Ghislaine and me getting hitched. It was especially cool reading it while waiting for a ferry to the jungle in Malaysia. Can’t wait to get back and crack open a beer with you.

Cheers from S & G.

nice clip too

http://www.searchforvideo.com/

you’re right, but hey, we’re still ‘among the little people’. meh

I like MeFeedia because you can subscribe to a master feed of all your subscriptions (from all over the internet).

You can also search videos from this customized Video Search

Thanks

Jay

@ mark. I think zabim is also pretty bad mate.

@ anonymous. Sumo is in the list

It allows users to create an aggregated video channels from multiple video sites and turn it into a widget as well.

Well, good luck in the future and maybe we’ll meet again

Stijn Statz
Hogeschool Rotterdam – student

see you next time somewhere

After some searching I found this article, with the following info and instructions which I will try shortly.

So to access GMail’s secure POP server as localhost:995, you could do:
sudo /usr/local/bin/proxytunnel -a 995 -g 123.123.123.123 \
-G 8080 -d pop.gmail.com -D 995
To access it as localhost:9995, just do:
/usr/local/bin/proxytunnel -a 9995 -g 123.123.123.123 \
-G 8080 -d pop.gmail.com -D 995
If your Mac is always connected to a firewalled network, you can stop reading now. Set up proxy tunnels, and you can use any service you want.

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I’m glad you enjoy watching XOLO Matheus! We love to hear from people who enjoy it! It always gives more of a boost than from people who hate it.

@Marc: that would have meant you had to get dressed and leave the house…you realise that right? (def tooooo much for us)

Happy New Year 007

Have an nice holiday season as well.

Cheers Alexx

you Gabes must be immune against this thing, whatever hardcore snot virus it is…
I have been coughing and drooling contaminated spit all over Gabe for that last few days, and he only feels a little ‘weakish’, as he puts it.

sometimes its just not fair.

Will there be a Jam Party-vlog post? I’d love to see you guys perform. Sounds like fun!

Is XOLO TV going to be present at the MacExpo in Amsterdam??

I bought the mac mini with 2 GB RAM, plus El Gato Eye TV 310 with CI, Eye TV-Software 2.0 (with integrated EPG), Philips DFR 9000 with HDMI and hooked the whole thing to my exising Bose speakers. This, with the sleek Front Row, is some incredible Home Stereo experience! Everything’s digital and the sound ist at its best! Cost: about 2000 €.

And, if you need similar sound in your “other” room, just go ahead and try the iPod Hifi. It has some beautiful sound and superb iPod integration.

Here is a link to a german website where mostly all cases are listed:

http://www.ipodlife.de/produktguide/hardware/taschen/56782.html

I prefer the socks …

regards,

Douwe
http://www.podcastinfo.nl
http://www.douwe.punt.nl
http://www.podwandeling.com

Douwe.punt.nl (DPNLTV)

Call me for the next event or just meet me to talk..make some nice movies

(+31 642150658)

But, ehm, what is it about?? Something to do with a stairway? Maybe I should see the original vlog…

A special key for the energy? That’s somethign I had never seen or heard about.

Have fun these next fewv days in Munich!

cheers.
Gabe

Grtz from Groningen

Cool! Very cool, a new G5! And let’s be honest, you guys deserve it! Hope the new jobs are working out for you, so let’s get together soon and catch up!

We’ve turned Apple too!! (why go bananas when you can go apple, right?) we bought ourselves a very sexy g5 to celebrate our newly acquired dink/yup status. You think I should dye PB’s hair too? Let’s get together soon and be geeky!

i wish i could be there. Hope we see us in the near future (my home to amsterdam = only 400 km).

Have a good one,
Alexx

My syster talked to me about you, for this time I just visit to your page for a while, but I promise to come back and annoy you just a little..

Kussjes

The song rocks!

When I get a new Mac I’ll be using Motion too!

You might be right. You are in title to the presumtion of innocence. But what about the people that are not innocent? What if someone is walking around with a weapon? What if you became a victim of that weapon? It happens all the time in the centre of Amsterdam. Not so long ago a young man lost his life due to a stabwound in his heart. This as also in the centre of Amsterdam. The way you put it the police can only search someone when they have done something wrong. The thing is, that might be too late in some cases! I think you have a point at what you say, but I really disagree, because if you don’t actually see the crime, it doesn’t mean that it’s not there!!

Man, congratulations! I know it was a lot of work editing (or should I say compositing?) everything together. Very very cool! (I’m amazed no one else has left a comment…)

Sorry only until now I’m leaving you a comment, but I was “away” from the vlogosphere for more than two weeks. Now I;m back. By the way I don’t know if you’re subscribed to our vlog, but if you are, we have a new feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ViviendoConFallas

It reminded me of a ‘black & white’ lanscaped room in Pompidou Centre in Paris.

geweldig hoe jullie proberen je gelijk te krijgen aan de hand van de Wet.
Laten we de Wet houden bij diegene die er echt verstand van heeft en precies kan uitleggen wat de bedoelingen zijn van de Wet: namelijk degene die hem gemaakt heeft en degene die mag oordelen.

Met stukjes copy en paste komen jullie er echt niet hoor!

En voor de rest, over een politieagent met zijn gezicht in beeld brengen heb ik mijn bedenkingen. Of het nou zo bedoeld is of niet, dit is geen conflict meer met de politie, maar dit komt over als iemand persoonlijk aanvallen. Hij kan zich niet verdedigen.

Als je echt zo goed denkt te weten wat legaal en illegaal is, doe het dan zó dat beide partijen zich kunnen verdedigen.

Thanks.

Why it has escalated from a routine search we will never know. It should have stayed as a civil conversation between two human beings but it didn’t.

I guess all you can do is count your blessings it wasn’t worse and hope it won’t happen again. Take care and keep blogging.

If you beleive in the striping away of your personal rights, and trading them in for some faint idea of security fine. Again, as I said before I’m not against the police. I’m not against the Dutch. I feel like I’m a broken record. It was a small incident that is indeed the symptom of greater problems. It looks like what we have here is failure to communicate. Fine, I give up. Go about your merry surfing, and go crusade someone else who will actually care any more.

I’m really getting fed up with everybody throwing dirt at gabe on HIS blog like it’s about him:
- representing the whole United States of America and the Bush administration,
- being arrogant,
- acting like he owns the world,
- or being ball-less for not having himself arrested??????!!!!!!

Where the F*** do you guys get off! You have NO idea what he is about, so keep your dirt to yourself!
(this was not JUST at you, I’m sorry)

If you want to form a (well-balanced)opinion and get your comments posted I suggest you:
READ, THINK, AND THEN MAYBE POST
(under the right post, instead of one about converting video so it will play on your i-pod)

And one last thing about the spamming (which Gabe already explained like three times on this weblog):
he hasn’t spammed other websites. People linked to this because they understood what Gabe’s point was and knew that it is an important question to ask: How much freedom are you willing to give up for a sense of safety? (check the links that Pavle put up under previous posts about the legal side of this)

This little incident, that is getting SO blown out of proportion was just something that happened to him last fridaynight and he wanted to share that with 30/40 people who regularly check his site. He wasn’t making a news item or a documentary in which he needed to cover every aspect.

Of course if you share stuff on the internet with family and friends, anybody can comment and if this leads to a discussion about the issue at hand, then you and everybody else is of course more than welcome to join in.

btw, it’s not so very relevant if this is your way of making a point, it doesn’t have to be, it’s not your blog. And you don’t have to bow for him, just read the articles and make up your own mind.

I would have had respect for you, if you show me a lawbook, not to give off on some officers.

THats all and it.Post it, its my 4th attempt.

Ive posted 2 times with ID, still i see nothing of my reaction. If you talk about a so-called open discussion, you should make it! Plus the fact that i think its ridiculous to show this particular video about such a big issue; not even close to reality. Go to the second chamber and go tape a debate there, this was just for the action.
Plus the fact that you spam this misunderstanding video to other websites… Its not my way of making a point: show me where and how this law isnt correct, then ill bow for you. Gr33tz

On another note, there are already enough possibilities in the law to enable the police to investigate a greater class of potentially suspicious persons in case of a greater localised threat.

As far as my knowledge of the laws is concerned, I wouldn’t want to have all the laws in my head. But on the issue of legality, my reaction was based on general knowledge that all people who’ve studied law in the Netherlands will have. Our rights as individuals (and they differ depending on whether we’re citizens or just humans) are part of Dutch constitutional law. (Staatsrecht, and if you’re studying it at the UvA you’ll probably study it from a handbook written by an ancestor of our current justice minister).

I was refering to one of the main human rights conventions that the Netherlands have signed up to, the Council of Europe’s Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. This treaty contains the following article:

Article 8 . Right to respect for private and family life

1 Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2 There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

The thing is that I wasn’t appealing to a loophole in the law. If any part of the story concerns a loophole then it’s the preventive search procedure which is not formally regulated but consists of cross-references in two acts which enable a mayor and a public prosecutor (neither of whom are democratically controlled) to decide which parts of town are ‘risk-areas’. If you read up on the issue (look at the link to the Amsterdam city site in one of the posts above) you’ll see that a fair chunk of the city center inside the Stadhouderskade has been called a risk area.

We’re not just talking of the Leidseplein, Rembrandtsplein and maybe the Reguliersdwarsstraat here. We’re also talking about the Spuistraat, the 9 straatjes etc., all areas which were always generally safe and pleasant. So, no I don’t buy your argument that there was (or even could have been) a specific cause. Moreover, the policeman could have very easily said that the search was related to an ongoing investigation in which case we would have complied very quickly. For me, this is the whole story: authority is not a justifier in its own right. If I go to a nightclub, I accept that the people at the door are there to guarantee the security of the people inside. By entering I accept their rules or I can refuse to be searched and not go in. (You might have noticed that the better clubs in town don’t pat you down any more sine they are more careful when deciding whom they want to let in). When I’m in a public place I have a right to move around freely without interference. If someone wants to limit this right I feel I have a right to an explanation.

Now as far as ‘cooperating with the authorities’ is concerned, since you say you’ve worked as a security guard you know that the best way to get someone’s respect is to treat them with respect. Friendliness breeds friendliness. Aggressiveness breeds aggressiveness. That’s what surprised me in this story. You may find Gabe’s smile irritating, that’s your right. But on the other hand, as it turned out, the police were finishing off their search, there was more than enough of them to beat the living daylights out of us if we really misbehaved, and I don’t thik that we showed them any disrespect. The fact that the policeman insists on his authority and feels the need to put Gabe in an armlock doesn’t bode well in my eyes. What would have happened if Gabe or I had really been drunk or pissed off. Imagine if Gabe’s girlfriend had just dumped him the day before. The funny thing is that a lot of the posters here are saying that we need to b more considerate of the police. All of a sudden, the police have become the subject entitled to a liberal,touchy-feely, considerate approach. On the one hand, I agree that you need to accept that policing is a tough job. On the other hand, they’re trained professionals. They know very well that when they act aggressively they can provoke an aggressive reaction. Had Gabe or I had an equally short temper, the people who were saying it’s a shame the video didn’t show any police violence would have had their share, and that for absolutely no reason. Well, no reason than that some people feel that Gabe has a silly smile on his face or that I am ugly with my rimmed glasses. Sorry, I don’t and won’t buy that argument. In this sense I may be naïve: I believe in a set of principles and if someone tries to force me in a situation where my principles and beliefs are brought under fire, I will say something about it.

On another note, everyone seems to be taking this story as a general complaint against the Netherlands. That’s the funny bit for me: if the complaint is about anything it’s about the Netherlands (unnecessarily) loosing some of its characteristics which have made it a great place in the past four hundred years. And sorry to say, but the availability of dope means nothing to me, except insofar as it shows a tolerant and pragmatic approach to the world.

Furthermore you were a total ass towards the police. You were laughin g in his face and you kept the camera rolling. Not cooperating with a police officer calls for fast measures against your behaviour. I have been a security guard at many parties and events and I never had time to judge people individually or listen to bs from people. At an event where there was too little security and a too soft policy on both searching and simple bouncing of people it turned out into a huge fight in which people got seriously damaged and alot of pain was inflicted on a lot of people.

What you and your weirdo friend did was non-cooperate with authorities. They do not need to say why a certain area is an emergency (their english might not be great) area. They dont have to answer to you. They might have received a call about two rapists or robbers in the area with knives, who knows.

No what the legal issue concerns. I study law in Holland. All I can say to “whatshisname who is a dutch lawyer” is that it insinuates that he knows all the Dutch laws, which of course is utter nonsence. No person knows his exact laws on this matter and knows all the loopholes in this system and all the attached laws.

And what ever happened to what foreigners like to say “what one of us does does not represent all of us”. One group of officers does not represent all of the Dutch people.

Oh and one other quick note. For a guy who has so much critisism on Holland you sure liked the weed you smoked right after the incident, or is it right before? Or both? That whatshisnameguy looked awefully stoned to me.

I’m one of the many people who linked to your post, and then I started a thread about it on the yahoo vlog group. I am very happy you posted this video. I think the behavior of the Dutch cops was, unfortunately, typical of police all over the world.

What I find really interesting is how soon a huge ammount of people in the industrialized world will be able to capture video and put it on the web. How will this change the the way police and citizens interact?

I also think the variety of responses has been interesting, particularly the Dutch ones! The Netherands is a much more complicated place than most people experience as tourists.

This film may or may not be helping us getting any further. It was not meant to be a political film but a simple registration of what little footage I had of the incident. I didn’t edit anything out of it.

I agree that the cops have a shitty job having to do this. I was trying to talk to the cops before and afterwards so that they could give the point of view and wasn’t trying to provoke anyone. I have learned a lot from this experience about how a little film can cause such a reaction. When I posted this little thing I had no idea that it would spread like this. I only have about 50 people look at this site who are mainly friends. I was rather ignorant of the far reach it could have. Please look at my other video postings which are always about how great life is here. It’s a one off instance, but it happened to me and this is my vlog.

I think your english is superb!

I agree with your interesting point of discussion; Where do we cross the line of invading privacy while securing public safety. It is a everlasting discussion which probably will never end.

But I think this video you made doesn’t help us getting any further. 1st of all: This officer was in fact very polite and was just doing his job, he did what he was told to do;
Secondly this IS legal in certain circumstances. I hope your lawyer friend agrees with me, or else I don’t see a very prosperous career for him in the future.
I think you will also understand that when an officer who is doing his job gets continously pointed at with a camera, he will get a little bit anoyed with an endless discussion about this.
So this is not the way to help this discussion in reaching its solution, its just a manipaluting form of populism.
Sorry for the bad english!

I agree the states are searching nuts. What does it achieve? I’m not sure. I mean the whole taking off the shoes thing? Don’t forget the taking off of the belt. And taking of the fingerprints is absolutly scandolus. And I back you 100% on that.

I agree Holland is a wonderful country. That’s why I love living here, and have enjoyed living here for half my life. I do speak Dutch very well, but this is a very international blog, so my apologies for not posting in Dutch.

I did try cooperating with the officer. I just wanted a valid explanation as is our right.

I’ll be brief since I’ve already gone through the legalities in short on geenstijl (and I presume you cam through there).

First of all, end of september the appelate court in Amsterdam judged preventive searches illegal. If I’m not mistaken, friday’s was the first search after the judgement.

Under Dutch constitutuinal law, the mayor cannot abridge rights granted to us by the constitution while the government cannot abridge granted to us by treaties. Both of these happened in the case of the rules regarding preventive searches.

Regarding the links to this item, this was done by others. Should Gabe have removed the video when others started linking to it?

A lot to do about nothing.

In the USA this would be done much more agressive and with much more force. I was searched my self 4 times leaving JFK two years ago.

I even had to tka off my shoes and my fingerprints were taken from my bag, without asking.

I agree, it feels terrible to be searched , but is a different world today.

In holland you can murder someone in cold blood and be out of prison in 12 years, you can drink and blow what ever you want and the dutch seldomy carry a gun.

It is is not such a bad country.

With every new idiotic comment posted, I laugh a bit more.

Keep kicking ass, Gabe.

b happy u can still carry 5 grams of softdrugs around here

greetings from a Dutchi

I understand your empathy…

What I do not understand is, why you 1. only show a video which doesnt even get close to showing the whole picture of what you are suggesting; this law isnt legal.
And 2. why do you “spam” this video to other websites, given off even more ‘not-realistic’ issues.
I think thats why much people are angry about this video.

The fact that you are seriously talking in this log about this law, its a shame you undermine it with this video. I respect your opionion. I just dont like the way you use the video. This is just media-attention, placing the police-officer as the badguy, while he is executing the law.

Your so-called ‘lawyer’ friend should known better;
In de grondwet staat dat de burgermeester bevoegd is gemeentelijke verordeningen kan bepalen. Dit preventiebeleid is een gemeentelijke verordening.

Greetz, Chris

I’m afraid you’re missing a point when you comment on the basis for the search. The specific order (‘last’) is given by the ‘Officier van Justitie’ (Public Prosecutor) who is a member of the appointed (as in: not elected) judiciary. Furthermore, he does this on the basis of a scope defined by the mayor (who is also an appointed/non-elected official). So that if by saying politics, you wish to say it was done by a democratically controlled institution, you are wrong.

The appelate court in Amsterdam found these actions illegal less than two months ago but the mayor has continued them in a slightly changed form.

Now as far as the rest of the world’s ills are concerned, our encounter with the police officers on Friday was not fun for us. Does this put it in the same league as blacklisted torture camps? Pfcourse not. Then again, the film is an off-the-cuff personal item and should not be seen as an intentional statement on the state of the world.

I disagree the cops didn’t give us a legal reason for searching us or anyone else who walked by the same spot that night. But it doesn’t matter. They searched us anyway, and I would have let them search me if there was a terrorist action in the area, someone was murdered or what have you. None of that was the case. So you feel I’m winning about the situation, fine. I just posted what happend to me like I do with many things in my life. That’s what I do as a video blogger. I would do the same thing in the states and probably be arrested for that or worse. I agree. I always felt safe in Holland, living here for half my life. It was a shock to have this type of treatment happen here as I feel Amsterdam is more my home than anywhere else in the world.

And we were not drunk. I had half a beer.I was not being abusive or mean, but being calm. Like I am trying to be now. Please note this is not about being American or Dutch. It’s about how much personal privacy do you release for security. That is the discussion.

First of all, you are actually misinformed: the police can only do this because it was mandated by politics – they have to ask for special permission. If you had cared to listen, that was what he was trying to explain to you.

Besides which, the cops were actually quite friendly and even explained what they were doing and why.

Don’t be whining bitches.

Go find something that’s actually worth being angry over. Secret CIA-prisons in the eastern block comes to mind. This is gay.

Maybe we should consider having political discussions like these at home in the future, since it apperently is quite impossible to talk about the issue at hand online. Although I would so much like to believe that there are more people like us who want to think and talk about moral issues without throwing dirt at each other.

Cheers

Ik ga weer in mijn hokje. Zwaai zwaai Tamara!

‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ comes to mind.
I hear he gets frisked by some hot mermaids and ’sent home’ by a bunch of nasty grindylows…

sorry couldn’t resist

anonymous = no balls

…

tamara?

Nog even een herhaling van een andere comment:
“Voor de rechtsliefhebbers onder jullie : kijk even naar de uistpraak van de Amsterdamse gerechtshof LJN: AU3200, 23.645.05 op http://www.rechtspraak.nl. Preventief fouilleren op deze wijze is door de rechter illegaal bevonden.”

Daar gaat het om. En zoals je op In-Ah’s blog zegt: jij leest liever een boek? Probeer er eentje over de Nederlandse wet?

Zal mij hierna weer tot de Engelse taal beperken om deze blog voor wereldburgers leesbaar te houden. Think outside of the box…(of landsgrenzen…)

- I am ashamed of what happens in the United States with these random searches. If you were not aware NY city just recently had a large debate about the exact same thing. And yes I have been searched in the U.S. before. However there has always been a reason for it, i.e. I was entering an airport, subway station or other enclosed public space. Not publicly on the street.

- My friend is a Dutch lawyer, and knows what the fuck he is talking about when he says that the random searching action is not legal, according to the Tweede Kamer.

- You xenophobes really scare me. I’ve been living in the Netherlands for half my life, and probably for longer than some of you who have been posting go back to your own country.

- Yes it is bad in America. That is the point. If you don’t want it to turn into America 2.0 I suggest you seriously start rethinking your comments and start taking action to preserve the civil rights you have while you still have them. Before long the Dutch could be seeing themselves have their own Patriot Act in effect. I don’t want to see that as much as you don’t.

- I apologize for trying to stand up for my and your rights as citizens of the Netherlands. I guess it’s true what that say in holland, “Doe je normaal, do je al gek genoeg.” If we keep with this credo, watch our civil rights disappear in the face of fear.

- I turned off the anonymous comments as I felt people were just starting to spam hate messages. This is not a censorship action as even weblogs like geenstijl and insane films have the same measures in place. If you really want to post a comment, register and post. Think about what you post, and try not to be a xenophobe.

As a last note, stop flamming everyone people. This is supposed to be a discussion, not a yelling festival. Whatever your feelings are on the subject, I am sure there is a validity to it, but think before you post please.

En natuurlijk is er een aanleiding maar die wordt niet getoond in het filmpje. Je arm in het openbaar in iemand’s reet stoppen is verboden.

Die 2 knakkers moeten gewoon niet zeiken. En laten ze eerst maar eens naar hun eigen politie kijken. (maar dat durven ze niet te filmen!)

1. We don’t want Holland to turn into the next USA, maybe that’s what the discussion should be about? And that’s exactly what this particular American is trying to say. Maybe he doesn’t want the European atmsophere to change into the American?
2. It’s about civil richt. Everybody got search, male female, black, white and yellow, Dutch and foreign, because there was a so called ‘emergency’ on Leidseplein. (which they couldn’t see)
3. At this moment, as far as we know, it is illegal to search just anybody if there is no just cause. (aanleiding/ verdacht gedrag)
4. These two men (just one of them American btw-get your information straight) have both been living in Amsterdam for several decades and have received their education here in Holland.
5. The one who’s not American is actually a Dutch Lawyer, so he does know what the fuck he’s talking about.
6. All the respectless assumptions get me really fucking pissed off, as if they were tourists misbehaving….! Fuck you, they pay more taxes than most of you, and really contribute to this society.
All they want is fror Holland not to turn into a second USA, and keep citizens aware of their rights, as theirs get violated.
7. Funny how people can turn all fascist on you when you’re trying to keep the rest od teh world turn into a next USA. The whole point being that it is NOT about being American, but a citizen of this country.

8. If the police had ASKED them to cooporate, they would have. It is the fact that they did not and did not want to answer the questions that these two men, (who ar NOT visitors, but uitzien of Holland!!!!) asked them about the frisking not being legal.

Let’s keep the discussion about civil rights and not living in fear of terrorism. What rights are you willing to give up for safety?

Do you really, really think they have a point here, screaming ‘police state’? Come on man, they were just trying to be some kind of smartass!. If you (Gabe & Gabe) have real balls, you should try this kind of behaviour in your own glorious country…..let’s see what would have happened then….

Voor de rechtsliefhebbers onder jullie : kijk even naar de uistpraak van de Amsterdamse gerechtshof LJN: AU3200, 23.645.05 op http://www.rechtspraak.nl. Preventief fouilleren op deze wijze is door de rechter illegaal bevonden.

I am ashamed to be dutch…

If it ain’t Dutch it ain’t much

You were just annoying an officer, then you play the victim, which is pretty sad by the way. Plus the fact that you are saying your a mediaman; im sorry, you are given a very onesided signal. Excuse me for my language, im Dutch.

You were told by the police, you guys were in an ‘emergency area’, the officer meant u guys are in an area, were every person, suspect and non-suspect, can be hold to search clothin for weapons ex. This is a LAW, police-officers handle the LAW. If you have a problem, go whine at the government who make the LAW.

Plus, I’m glad im Dutch, if i see all these similar reactions of people, all saying the same dumb things. If there was just one person, looking up things, like you Gabe, you would have find out that you were WRONG and whining!!!

Consider yourself lucky you did this in Holland. Take this sad blog offline and next spring break go to Florida instead.

If people in a country like living in a dictatorship, then let them, even if there is oil to be found there.

Our government of bad-hairday-pussies is acting towards the US as a dog to its master. So why do you think all of a sudden frisking-for-no-reason is so commonplace in “risk area’s”? These area’s are where there are a lot of people, so a potential bombing-area. We are now using the USA-way of dealing with a threat of terrorism, thank you for that!

Oh, and when you do hit the streets in your own country, be sure to film that as well. I’m curious how your own fine policeforce will treat you. Remember, you only got frisked in A’dam!

Tip: Know the law before coming to our country.

Stupid Whiners

You can offcourse film the cops in this procces and there isn’t much they can do about this.

Guess that each different nation get the leader they deserve!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi/nb_rm_fs.stm?checkedBandwidth=nb&nbram=1&subtitles=hide&checkedMedia=ram&news=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&nol_storyid=4455316

Then you think to know why they are NOT allowed and start acting up. Now that kind of behaviour will not be tolerated by any cop wherever in the world. Realise that cops are being insulted and deal with people who think to know better every day so his being pissed off i can understand. You should have judged the situation a bit better and just dropped it. What’s the point, it’s for your own safety.

In another country the reaction could have been far worse and I think you know this very well.

Can’t and won’t blame you for putting it online though, cause the same experience in USA by a Dutch guy would have lead to the same being blogged on a site here.

Keep coming to Amsterdam people, you can still have experiences here out in the open that you won’t be able to do anywhere else.

Junglim

There have been several shootings in Amsterdam during the preceding weeks and there certainly is, contrary to the random image presented at the end of the film, reason for the authorities to step up surveillance. The rather childish pair were simply provoking a reaction. It is good that their faces are on the internet. I’ll be looking out for them. The police are the only people standing between me and some distinctly dangerous people. I respect them because in 25 years in this country, as an adult ex-pat from Britain, they have never given me reason to dislike them. That is a great track record, and a tribute from someone who grew up in seventies (terrorism ravaged)Britain who brought an attitude along with himself. They take risks for me, so don’t fuck with them. If leftwing Americans want to project their puerile fantasies onto the Dutch, then the only thing they achieve is to reveal how ignorant they are. You might try learning a language if you’re not too stoned. It helps to know the circumstances before you open your big fat prejudiced mouth.

Cynics have (partially) destroyed the liberal atmosphere in the Netherlands, so they have also damaged my life. Don’t misjudge the mood.

if u dare!

16,137 murders & 94,635 rapes in the United States in 2004,

Rape Up, While Murders Down in 2004

By MARK SHERMAN
The Associated Press
Monday, October 17, 2005; 12:08 PM

http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/F/FBI_VIOLENT_CRIME?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-10-17-16-36-50

QED

Read it suckers http://www.politie-amsterdam-amstelland.nl/frameset/get.cfm?id=209

See this as a nice lesson that you shouldn’t go around videotaping everyone..(try this for example near the Pentagon or some other high risk building in the US.)
So, stop whining and enjoy the hits on your not so amazing blog and your 15 minutes of fame with this piece of footage

Anyway… we in the Netherlands are mild. We don’t use stun guns. They are prohibited I think, because it’s torture or cruel behaviour against humans. But eh… we know what you Americans do with your prisoners:

http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444

Ubu Ghraib is against all human rights…

It can happen; being asked for ID’s and being frisked while in Amsterdam. It’s done randomly in certain public areas, especially on busy nights like friday or saturday. They collect a lot of knives and other weapons that way.

It’s no fun, but just go along with it and you’ll be on your way again in minutes. Or, be a smartass about it and start an irrelevant and boring discussion.

Christ, you should see what american customs put tourists through before letting them in.

In conclusion; this only confirmes what i already knew; all lawyers are assholes and i haven’t seen an exception to this rule yet.

QED

preventive searching of people is legal here in the netherlands. So you might pay attention to the law when you VISIT a countrie and keep in mind how foreigners are treated in the USA.

On the other hand, would you try and smart out an American cop like that? Americans do not have a good name here anymore, and after all the media hyping of the Aruba case…do me a favour. It was just a cop and they do that to Dutch citizens as well. Relax. He didn’t kill you did he?

The cop was 100% authorized to search you and because of these kind of policies .. Amsterdam is safer than LA or NY.

Watch what you’re talking about, being searched prevently can happen to anyone in the major cities here.
And guess what, American people which behave arrogant and like an asshole towards a police-officer, will receive a police-officer which acts like an asshole to them.

I think I’ve been far more times in Amsterdam at than this great hero of yours and I haven’t been searched any time.

Go figure

And yes, Dutch police officers do get irritated by arrogant Americans who think that rules only apply to others.

This might jog your memory to what might happen to people not listening to the police in the USA.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/video/taser_video3a.html

Seems our officers were actually quite nice to you

So what’s all the fuzz about?

Please remember next time that when you treat someone like a jerk, their behaviour towards you will be likewise.

And what is the problem anyway. It is the exact same treatment you get from US customs everytime I enter the USA…..

And you probably would not have done this in the USA…

All the background info you need to understand what happened in the video was given to me in this podcast. Thanks for clearing that up

I’m not trying to dis you, Gabe – your video post is a good example of the power of videoblogging. Yet I’m waiting for the real deal; get these tools and the knowledge of blog technologies into the hands of the poor and black people of America and you’ll see some real harassment. Rodney King was nothing.

(By the way, I’m a white dude and native son of Los Angeles.)

Awesome job! I really admire you for keeping your cool like that and even more for posting this.

what a good film! this is the reason to videoblog
groeten hugo

@pavle: You made me think for a while and I guess you’re right. I’m also aware that this question on privacy and space going to be answered a lot of times in a lot of different ways when vlogging takes of. But I’m glad we’re all here to take these issues serious sometimes. Keep up the good work!

What you miss in the video is the fact that there was between eight and ten policemen there, maybe even more. In other words, there was more than enough of them to beat Gabe and me into a bloody pulp if we’d misbehaved. And still the officer’s tone is one of agression mixed with fear. That I don’t understand…

Videologgers rule!

P.S. say hello to ur dad jason and inah(or however u spell that)

The video scares me.

At least, now I know that if something like that happens to me, I’m going to start recording myself, at least we’ll be able to hear the police men talking…

Man, I’m still in shock watching it… Your last sentence is awesome!!!!!

At a very abstract level, the camera’s saying, ‘listen, I may not be able to stop you from what you’re doing, but I am going to record it, so watch what you’re doing’. In that sense it’s almost a weapon, and in this case, it’s a defensive weapon.

I too would not welcome having a camera pointed at me, I would not seek it out. Don’t forget, this is a ‘first person’ recording. This isn’t someone zooming in on a stranger from the other side of the street: it’s a recording of what happened to the person with the camera. So in that sense, I feel the ‘moral’ right to oppose the recroding was not present. To draw a skewed parallel, no bank robber wants to be recorded on film. It all boils down to how we define space and privacy, and I say, you concede part of your privacy when you act in a public space, and you loose your right to protect your privacy when you invade someone else’s space.