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.