Posted on 08/26/2005 4:37:24 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"Why don't you make me pick out the one illegal from a group of 10 from Iceland./sarcasm."
Good luck finding the 10 Icelandic illegals! The last estimate I saw said there were only 3. LOL - Maybe they over stayed on their visas when the airline had a strike./sarcasm.
You'll notice that the charge was naught but a CATCHALL, not a specific charge of giving false info. However, it should NEVER be a crime to lie to a cop or a politician. Since lies are their stock-in-trade, turnabout surely IS fair play.
In this case, there is no evidence that she lied to them; only that she REFUSED his obviously unlawful request.
I am sure that most of the attitude is indeed a reflection, but I think a lot of officers get so much negativity that they end up with a bad habit of "copping a 'tude" because they expect to be on the receiving end of one.
LOL. Thanks for the support. Here is one you did not mention, post #63, maybe you did not see this one, which was one of the first:
Does the "SF" stand for San Francisco? If so, that explains a lot about your reply.
Salt Lake City 2005
Action - Woman refuses to show her papers. Arrest follows. No charges.
Consequences - Woman files lawsuit, possibly winning thousands of dollars. Officer possibly suspended or fired. Pension threatened.
Berlin 1941
Action - Woman refuses to show papers and is arrested.
Consequences - Officer Commendated, his brother-in-law, Siegfried, is transferred from Russian front to Munich.
Consequences - Woman - Dachau, or Treblinka or Bergen-Belsen or....
Those two posts were mine. It is accepted protocol here on Free Republic, and general mannerly behavior overall, for a poster quoting or paraphrasing another poster to address comments to them as well.
I accept your apology.
Generally when I read arguments of that "quality" I don't consider the author worthy of reply.
No apology given.
Refresher course: This is Free Republic.
The badgelicker forum is over here:
Please look at tomorrows Salt Lake City Weekly-
may be another follow- up story on this artist.
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