I lived in the USSR for the half of my life - if the kid did not want to tell the cop where he was going, that is all that the cop needed to know. In his response, the kid established that his speech was not slurred.
If we allow the cops do as they are pleased, taking the given authority overboard, just because they can, we will be in the same pit as the Soviet Union was and we will have no foot to stand on in the matters of human rights and civilized society, and I can't see how we can teach the world democracy lessons, when our own citizens are being tased once they are totally under physical control of 4 cops or charges are being either made up or blown out of proportions... How many of those cases never made it to YouTube or a TV screen??
does anyone here remember the Radio Liberty and Voice of America broadcasts over the SU territory about the police (militia) power abuses and human rights?
I love my new country but I am afraid that I am witnessing a slow move towards the regime that I escaped almost 20 years ago - I have been pulled over in DC area over a dozen times within 2 years (prior to that, only 5 times over 15 year period), and was let go simply because I was able to establish my affiliation with some of the "power agencies". Otherwise, I firmly believe that I would have been inside some US version of GULAG.
Go ahead, prove me wrong, I will only be happy to be wrong...
