They broadcast it (the bastards)

[laura_seabrook]

SBS TV had a short segment about the Filipino prison that has it's prisoner's rehearse scenes from Michael Jackson's Thriller. The thing is that the warden videoed this and put a copy on YouTube (or somebody did)!

That sounds sort of cute, but I listened to HACK yesterday, and they had a segment about this (starts at about 8 minutes on this pod cast from the 31st). There was testimony from someone from who went to that prison and witnessed these. It seems that rather than welcome this, most of the prisoners are forced to do it. Quote:

"...I have never seen such a large and unhappy people - they were dancing like automations, and they were deeply deeply afraid..."

Seems like an abuse of power to me. Grrr!

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[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

It isn't the first time. They had them all doing the Algorithym Dance from Pythagoras Switch. I wondered if they'd volunteered to do it or not.