🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 06 Jul 1998 01:32:04 -0400, Mike Sweeney <*NOSPAM*msweeney@lr.net>
wrote:

>They probably do not give a flying fig if you question it, so long as you don't
>insist (like some in here) that they change it or ignore it.

There's clearly no sense in asking a cop to change the law as that's outside of
his/her power.  I see no reason why I could not, however, prevail upon a member
of a police force *not* to enforce a law that was clearly wrong.  Individual
officers, as well as prosecutors and judges have discretion in the application
(or non-application) of the law quite frequently.  The most basic example would
be an officer issuing a warning rather than a citation. 

I don't believe that one who takes an oath to "serve the public' in so doing
reliquishes his/her obligation as a human being to do what is right and just
(which is not necessarily the same as what is legal).

>Bad laws should be changed, not resisted.  Get people off their lazy asses and do
>something--protest, petition, etc.  If you get enough people involved, change is
>inevitable.  Resisting and challenging cops just makes you look like dimwits.

Not at all.  I would resist a ticket as far as I could buy pursuing my case in
the courts.  I resist unreasonable speed limits on a daily basis.  "Passive
resistance" in the face of injustice (Ghandi, King) has a rather distinguished
history.  Your remedies are indeed worth pursing, but they're not the only
courses of action available.

-Eric