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RE: NO CONCLUSION - A thought Experiment
So, what happened next? What was the purpose of it all? This is a clear indication that turning on those lights is a definite threat to your life; especially considering the gun coming out when you do pull over. Why would you comply with a threat when you've done nothing wrong? Had you tried to defend yourself against this threat, who is actually in the wrong?
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The point here is that we can have a purist idealistic binary understand of right and wrong, but in practice we have people who are judges of said differences.
The point is also that these are not necessarily correlated, but we get hung up on the idea that they ought to be.
I may be innocent from the initial crime I was suspected of, but that innocence does not blanket me from the second crime which is that of none compliance.
Yes, I may see the actions of a police officer as violence, as unjustified, but in other for society to have it's laws, they appointed law enforcement personnel and gave them special powers if you will. I may not be ok with that on principle, but until I move out of the system, I must be aware of their functions and dynamics.
The purpose of this thought experiment is more to shed some logical light on the current political events. Some are so attached to the idea that the president is innocent of conspiring with the Russian, which seems to be the case, that are ready to dismiss all attempts his administration made to delay and impede investigations, there for being very much like the hypothetical driver who refuses to stop.
Again, this does not make the driver guilty of the " initial accusation".
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It's certainly thought-provoking.
Should non-compliance be a crime if there is no victim and you are not putting anyone else in danger, though? And even if it is, should the police have the 'special power' to threaten your life (and potentially end it) for a victimless crime? Breaking a rule somebody wrote on a piece of paper should not make your right to life worthless, but it does in the eyes of the "law."
As far as things with Trump, I'm Canadian and I don't pay attention to it much. It's not that it's not shoved in my face at every turn just like everyone else experiences, even up here, though. It all just seems like it's being used as a distraction. Politicians are slimy, lying, deceitful people. There is plenty of proof throughout history to support this. Maybe some aren't, but there is absolutely no way you get to any high-level position like that without lying and misdirecting people at every turn. They're just gangsters who pretend they aren't. If they don't lie, steal, and cheat to get to the top, they'll just be lied to, stolen from, and cheated by all the politicians around them and won't stand a chance. If I was a politician being investigated, I'd be trying to delay it as much as possible as well. There's no telling what other things they'd find to use and there will always be something when dealing with politicians if you look deep enough. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
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