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On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:56:27 GMT, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote in : : Be that as it may, it's like arguing with a cop. No good can come from it. I know what you're getting at, but here's an example of good coming from arguing with a cop: From: " jls" Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting Subject: !! Joking? Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:27:28 -0400 An aggressive cop stopped me in my quiet neighborhood a few months ago and demanded ID. I was taking a late night walk in sweat pants to burn off a few calories. I told him I didn't have any ID and was in my own neighborhood not bothering anybody and unaccustomed to being accosted by an officer pulling his cruiser over into my path, blocking me. Then did he ever become hostile and told me to take my hands out of my pockets. I did as he said until they became cold and back into my pockets they went. This time he threatened me with handcuffs and jail, and then he went off the charts when my hands went back into their pockets. "Take them out!" he snapped. "No, I won't," I said, as I turned my pockets inside out to show him there was nothing in them "and if you arrest me you'd better have a damn good reason in law for it." He began to reach for me as if to grab my arm and I quickly stepped back, pulling away from him. "Now you've assaulted me," I said. "I have lived here in this town for the better part of two decades," I said firmly, "and this is the first time in my experience I have been menaced by a law officer." "I am NOT 'menacing' you," he says. He was so taken aback he went completely silent for a moment, then said, "OK, move along then." Which I did, almost leaving in a trot. Off he went in the other direction spinning his wheels and screeching his tires. It has been my experience, that if you are right and the judge or LEO is not, you can usually prevail. However if you're wrong, there is a good likelihood that arguing may provoke them to retribution. But the individual so cowed by a mistaken or unjust authority figure as to submit to intimidation (expressed or implied) in response to mere rank or status, enables that figure to successfully perpetrate their misguided assault. |
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