[thanksgiving]

I am sorry you're getting downvoted but this is absolutely right. Remember to never talk to the police. This sounds a little sarcastic but I promise you that it is not. Never, ever "help" the police, even if you are not a suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

The police do not have a duty to protect you [nytimes]. Why do you have a duty to help them?

[nytimes] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html

(If you intend to downvote, please kindly leave a note as to why I am wrong.)

[npizzolato]

Thank you for posting those links. While the video is long, any US citizen would do well to make the time to watch it.

[sarciszewski]

I don't even know why that one got downvoted to oblivion.

[iwouldwager]

I would wager that it was this bit:

"it's the sort of cynicism that leads to [...] making sure your rights are respected"

[sarciszewski]

Er, okay, what's wrong with that statement?

[iwouldwager]

What you describe is doing everything you can in order to try to avoid a situation in which you might be required to flex your rights. How can you describe it as a strategy for "making sure your rights are respected"? It is on its face an attempt to make the question of whether you have rights or not a no-impact detail.

[sarciszewski]

> What you describe is doing everything you can in order to try to avoid a situation in which you might be required to flex your rights.

I like to think of it as maintaining a preemptive strategy. I don't like this, but the world we live in is unfair and full of assholes who don't play by their own rules.

> How can you describe it as a strategy for "making sure your rights are respected"?

A man who faces no wars carries no battle scars.

> It is on its face an attempt to make the question of whether you have rights or not a no-impact detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E#t=256