Posted on 04/09/2009 9:11:11 AM PDT by flowerplough
Neighboring edge-of-Appalachia dairy farmer wrecks car on way home from bar. Gets a ride home, answers door when cops knock. When cops ask, admits that wrecked car is his, and that he'd been drinking at a bar. Cops haul him to closest clinic emergency room (15 miles) for blood alcohol test, subsequently charge Driving Under the Influence of alcohol.
Have heard from Christian radio shows interviewing purported Christian lawyers (oxymoron?) that anyone who ever answers any cops' question about anything is probably taking an un-necessary risk.
“Have heard from Christian radio shows interviewing purported Christian lawyers (oxymoron?) that anyone who ever answers any cops’ question about anything is probably taking an un-necessary risk.”
Only if you’ve committed a crime.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE
There is the rub. In today's, and future America, the liberals will have made so many rules, making so many things illegal, that the ordinary citizen doesn't/won't even know taht a law has been broken, until they are being hauled away.
Does this thread have a purpose?
If you believe that you are delusional.
Ha, ha! Go ahead and keep thinking that.
That’s nothing. I got a speeding ticket when had just checked the speedometer because it was in a well known speed trap area. The jerk even admitted he’d clocked me coming down the hill BEFORE the speed limit dropped at the city limit sign and that I was going the CORRECT speed down the hill and that I was going the CORRECT reduced speed when he hit his lights at the city limit sign. So, where the heck was I supposedly @#%(&U@#% speeding???
The purpose of this thread seems plain to me;
Warning - never talk to cops. If they don’t like you, they will FIND a reason to arrest you.
After 911, anyone with a pulse was givin a badge and a gun, and they can keep the badge and gun provided they write tickets and make arrests.
I'm guessing your daughter admitted the wreck was her fault.
NEVER do that.
Even if it is your fault, admit to nothing. If you must answer, keep them brief and noncommittal.
>>“Have heard from Christian radio shows interviewing purported Christian lawyers (oxymoron?) that anyone who ever answers any cops’ question about anything is probably taking an un-necessary risk.”
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>Only if you’ve committed a crime.
I disagree. There are enough laws, rules, and regulations out there (with exceptions, and exceptions to exceptions) to be able to [rather easily] FIND something, somehow that you have done to be illegal.
Don’t they call it tyranny when a man can’t go into his own back-yard, cut down his own tree, and build a new building on his own property? Yet that is the very situation we have now in our cities.
Thanks, I’ll watch them when I get home.
Never volunteer ANY information to a police officer, other then your name, without your lawyer being present.
*nod* - In Soviet Amerika, you are wrong even when you are right.
I’m not sure I see the problem. Yes, he would have been smarter to keep his mouth shut and ask for a lawyer, but it is not as if the cops did something wrong by arresting him.
He more or less admitted to DUI. Are the cops supposed to just let him go? BTW, I’m guessing his lawyer will claim that he was sober when he wrecked the car, but got drunk after he got home.
Indeed.
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures.
We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" – 1957
And that he could have killed some innocent person while driving drunk!
Wait - so this guy was driving drunk (a crime). He “escape the scene of the crime” but is subsequently found and admits to the crime.
You have a problem with him getting arrested?
How about if it had been an illegal alien? Would you be complaining that he could have hit someone?
Seems to me that this drunken arse got just what he deserved.
No, actually even if you have not committed a crime, it’s not safe to offer anything at all.
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