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Originally Posted by PARAGON
No, it's not.
Flipping off a LEO is a sure sign something is up and gives reason for the LEO to check that person out further. What if it was some whack job that was banged out of his mind and had a hankering to do some killing and thought the Po-Po was was nothing but a joke.... so flip them off.
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Can you point to the paragraph in the constitution that allows unreasonable measures based on a "hunch"? Even if the hunch is correct, the ends do not justify the means. Talk to 'ol Ben Franklin about that. He was right.
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Originally Posted by PARAGON
Open disrespect of authority for no apparent reason is a great way to get looked at closer. It's not a cop using his position to harass, it's using their training to identify a potential BG before he doesn't something rash.
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Open disrespect for authority, although not adviseable, is not illegal. It is no doubt stupid based on what it will bring you. But the point of discussion here is not the result, it's the means. The end result does NOT justify those means. That's a fundamental assersion inherent in the constitution.