Damn!!..where did time go...i could have sworn the last i wrote here was last week, but its been almost a month. why didn't time fly so fast when i was in school and now that am getting older, it decides to bolt. irony of life eh!!
well in those three weeks, a lot has happened i even managed to get arrested..sort of. me and my friend were, apparently for breaking the copyright law. you see, i formatted my computer meaning i don't have music. so i asked my friend Emma if i could copy her music (she is the only person in the world who listens to the exact same music as i do...think of her as my beat twin sister). well we transferred it to her working computer so that i could carry it with a flash disk seeing as music was in her phone and i din have my laptop with me. after this we kind of forgot to delete the music. plus it was last year.. who remembers things from the last year?.
apparently, the police, and i use this term loosely, do. two weeks ago five men walked in our working office, all dressed in casual, and from where i was seated they were reeking of alcohol..did i mention it was only 11 am? so they said hi and told us they were from the copyright department and were checking for any illegal music writing. very confidently and with a bit of arrogance i told them no we did not....from what i have heard about the police, they are not the most likable people...to me that is.
so they set about looking and came cross music in my friends computer. where did that come from? i wondered. the police on the other hand could not hide the joy from there face...a hunter returning home with a big kill could not match their joy. they went crazy..telling us that we were pirating, selling music illegally and our forty days were over. excuse me, did you just refer to me and my friend as thieves or worse yet criminals.that's a phrase i hoped would remain in my Insha papers not in reference to me. i was fuming.
we tried talking to them, told them that no illegal activities went on and it was only for personal use. never mind that the computers have no DVD drive and no audio. but they could careless....and i knew we were not committing a crime. the last time i checked, piracy involves copying work that belongs to another and then selling it for own profit. i tried saying this, but i was shut down..they carried my friend and the computer.
but this was not before mentioning that i could make it all go away..."madam unatakaje sasa. hii kitu inaweza isha tu sahii"
the nerve of this man!!!
i was lost, i had never encountered the police before. they took my Friend, and left me to come up with a "solution"
well a solution i did come up with, it cost us five thousand shillings.
i have never felt so much rage like i did on that day. that was hard earned money and for someone to come and take it away just because they can hurts. these are the police, the same people you are supposed to run to in case of a problem. they are supposed to to maintain law and order not rob you in broad day light in the name of the government.
there is no difference between them and the robbers. in fact, i think they are worse. at least a robber looks and acts like one. they do not pretend. but the police, taking money from you like that....just because they can twist the law to get what they want and there is nothing we could do about it, was the highest level of betrayal. to make matters worse, i am pretty sure the money was spent on some hookers and alcohol.
i know some of you will tell that is the way things are, that i am naive to think that they are interested in my well being and will protect me.
but I'd be damned. if i am not safe from the police, who am i supposed to run to then?
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