On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 06:04 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:
Tim May wrote:
I know that I if I am ever stopped for photographing a dam or a bridge I hope I'll have the courage to tell the cop to fuck off. If arrested on such a bogus charge, things will escalate dramatically and I would be forced to Plan B.
Strong suggestion: don't phrase it quite that way. Don't give the jack-booted thug any real grounds for arrest, or even "detention".
Fuck that.
It might be even worse for you, as a Californian, than for most Americans. Isn't California one of the states which requires all citizens to "cooperate" with police? With cooperation presumably defined as "whatever the pig wants you to do".
No. You really have been reading too many of the "Happy Fun Court is Not Amused" arguments and not enough about probable cause, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and the C. in general. There certain is no "requirement to cooperate." Where to do otherwise intelligent people pick up these bizarre ideas? --Tim May