Everyone loves a mugshot

I sent out the following email to a ton of people. Basically a status report on the situation:

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For your identification pleasure...



Hey all, I trust everyone's had a nice summer. It was kind of a weird one for me. The legal case has still not been resolved and the police have still not released my photographs (yes, that's illegal). As you probably heard, I got arrested by the St. Paul/Mpls/Airport police in a peculiar incident of unwarranted Law Enforcement Aggression against Macalester's graduating Senior class on May 11. I can't really talk about the details (there is a story at www.themacweekly.com right now with the basics) but at least I was arrested photographing the situation, producing some kind of evidence rather than just a written report of what transpired.



One of our classmates (an international student) was savagely assaulted by Ramsey County jail personnel within the county jail - and another pepper sprayed in the back of the squad car. We also saw Ramsey County jailers spontaneously assault a helpless black man in the processing room. It was an experience I will never forget - the State does terrible things behind concrete walls and steel doors. We saw that especially if you are not a white citizen, you have *very* good reason to fear the Authorities.



It is very weird to have Conditional Release. Instead of Posting Bail, I still have to call this woman at Project Remand every week. In theory, I could be tossed in jail for jaywalking or speeding. We are having a Florence Hearing on September 27, which is a type of hearing with witnesses. If the judge finds that there was not Probable Cause to believe that we committed crimes, she can toss the case. Otherwise we have to try to wheedle out a plea bargain - some have been offered already.



Other than that, well, I am still productively employed with Computer Zone Consulting and Politics in Minnesota. At the end of August I moved back to Hudson with the parents for a while, giving me a well leveraged position in cheap cigarettes, fireworks and Sunday Booze. The likely plan is that I will move to an apartment in Minneapolis with Dan Schned by October 1, but that is not quite certain (Schned himself just got a job yesterday at the liquor store by the Hennepin freeway exit).



If anyone has family down South, I hope they are doing all right. This was some crazy shit we've seen over the last few weeks. I am thinking that maybe I should go down sometime - there would surely be a thousand stories to tell the world. My website is actually dependent right now on a corporate Data Center perched high in a New Orleans skyscraper. The company called DirectNIC (http://www.directnic.com ) is staffed by these strung-out people holed up in the skyscraper, running a diesel generator. If their computers go down, then the link between http://www.hongpong.com and its current IP address might stop working. Very strange. DirectNIC's website has a lot of stunning photos of the situation, even a live webcam perched above the depopulated city.



So my present contact info is

Dan Feidt

802 6th Street

Hudson, WI 54016



Cell: 651-338-7661

Family house: 715-386-5565 or TOLL FREE (yes!) 888-346-5565 .

email: dan.feidt@gmail.com

web: http://www.hongpong.com

AIM: hongpong2000



Much love to everyone - stay in touch. I hope everyone has a fine fall season at college or Real Life. I am often very flaky about staying in touch with people. It's nothing personal - I'd really like to hear from everyone! Take care!



Dan