and I won't hurt you.'
And yet he demands unresisting submission to police without
argument or even legal protest. Just how do you "refuse
consent to search your car or home" without running afoul of the
no-nos Dutta warns may get you "shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck
with a baton or thrown to the ground"?
Remember, this is a thoughtful police officer, with a
PhD., who teaches criminal justice.
...
But you don't have to have an armored vehicle to be a jerk and a
danger to the public. If you have the attitude that you are owed
deference and instant obediance by the people around you, and that
you are justified in using violence against them if they don't
comply, we already have a problem. That's especially true if
official institutions back you up, which they do.
If you really think that everybody else should "just do what I
tell you," you're wearing the wrong uniform in the wrong country.
And if you really can't function with some give and take—a few
nasty names, a little argument—of the sort that people in all sorts
of jobs put up with every damned day, do us all a favor: quit.
The thoughtful and polite response to this guy was made by Mark Steyn the other day:
Really? You're a constable. You may be carrying on like the military
commander of an occupying army faced with a rabble of revolting natives,
but in the end you're a constable. And the fact that you and your
colleagues in that McDonald's are comfortable speaking to your fellow
citizens like this is part of the problem.
The more blunt response is 'Kiss my ass. You're not my boss, and I have the right to make note of that.'
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