A friend e-mailed me a link to an interesting YouTube video entitled Don't Talk to Cops, a lecture by Professor James Duane, a former defense attorney. The video is embedded at the end of this post.
Raised in a Christian environment, I had always assumed that the "Christian" thing to do was to cooperate with police officers in every possible way, including doing everything they could possibly ask you to do, and giving them any information they would ever want to know at any time. But the professor's lecture helped me to consider some aspects of this subject that I had not considered before.
This video, and some other research I have done lately, has given me a fresh perspective on the Bill of Rights. In particularly, I have been looking at the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments, and I have been surprised to learn how important it can be for an ordinary citizen to understand how to exercise these rights for his own protection.
Raised in a Christian environment, I had always assumed that the "Christian" thing to do was to cooperate with police officers in every possible way, including doing everything they could possibly ask you to do, and giving them any information they would ever want to know at any time. But the professor's lecture helped me to consider some aspects of this subject that I had not considered before.
This video, and some other research I have done lately, has given me a fresh perspective on the Bill of Rights. In particularly, I have been looking at the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments, and I have been surprised to learn how important it can be for an ordinary citizen to understand how to exercise these rights for his own protection.
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