[driftdiver]

“You seem to be showing a good bit of immaturity by insisting on perfection when you should know good and damn well that such a thing is necessarily impossible.”

And you seem to be reacting in a very defensive manner because you have a weak argument. Not demanding perfection, I am demanding that our rights be respected.

“What do you do when someone is pointing a gun at you?”

Oh so now the cop was drawing down on him. Musta thought Don-o was a mirror.

“As to your question of when rights are important, they always are. But where were don-o’s rights violated?”

Lost the argument so now you are deflecting.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Well, in this entire argument, no one's rights HAVE been violated. You seem to have no point. Don-o's rights were not violated. If he writes a letter to the chief and draws the enmity of the police force, his rights still HAVE NOT been violated. If he calls the police at a later date and they give a half-assed effort to serve him, his rights STILL have not been violated (no constitutional guarantee, didn't you know that?). If those same police decide to keep an eye out for his car and pull him over for any traffic violation he makes, his rights STILL HAVE NOT been violated. You seem to think that if part or all of the police force harbor resentment due to a letter from a citizen criticizing them for performing their job duties makes them KGB or Stasi. It does not, and sounds more like impotent whining than an intelligent arguement much less a grip on the reality of the world we live in.

Deflecting? Hardly. You seem to be attempting to paint me as someone who has no consideration of the rights of people when faced with scrutiny from law enforcement, yet can provide no example of those same rights being violated. You seem to expect perfection from everyone participating in an imperfect system.

And incidentally, the 'someone points a gun at you' part was to illustrate the irrelevance of your primary argument strategy (hence the use of 'you' which means, for lack of a better term, YOU, duh...), not an example of the way don-o was treated. But you already knew that. Only now, you don't have the option of playing dumb about it.