This was posted on Lew Rockwell’s blog today. Since I was raised to try and be honest, and to be law abiding (as much as possible, anyway), I honestly can’t say I’d ever thought about these questions all that much. On the few instances when I’ve been stopped for exceeding the speed limit, I try to be polite to the officer who has pulled me over, answer questions honestly (most recent example: Officer: “Do you know what the speed limit back there is?” Me: “25 mph, isn’t it?” Officer: “Yes, do you know how fast you were going?” Me: “Uh, no” Officer: “I clocked you going 36 down that hill. Would you like to take a look at my radar?” Me: “No, that’s o.k., I trust you.”), and get out of there. Gee, that was pretty stupid, huh?
Anyway, I don’t know if I will think more clearly in the (hopefully) unlikely event that I’m pulled over by the police again (I’ve been driving solo for over 30 years, and have gotten 3 tickets in that time), but this was a video worth watching, if for no other reason than to give me reason to think twice before talking to the police (or, apparently, to the IRS).
I watched this video somewhere in the past. I remember the fast talking lawyer, heh.
And I remember being really concerned about my well being if an officer or officers ever came to question me about anything. I doubt that I would utter anything but, "I will not answer without a lawyer present."
Posted by: Brutus | 09/08/2009 at 06:55 AM