Reply #95: Am I, or he, supposed to care about the legitimate reasons?

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Okay fine, I screwed up and left my car in a spot too long. I am moving my car now, okay. But, but, but noooooooo. Some pushy foliceman feels the need to delay me and explain to me what an a$$hole I am for not being aware of all the rules. "Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?"
"Whatever dude, can I go now?"
"No, you cannot go, because I am going to keep badgering you until you show the proper level of remorse and deference, and btw, I am badgering you because I do not like your political views."

Whatever your tone, your belligerence seemed to come first. "That did it" you wrote. He was not properly deferential or courteous, so I decided to go after him.

Also, I am not walking away from your post feeling either silly or enlightened. Why can't you defend what you did without attacking me? 'Nice, troll... you sound like one of those folks (like this fool...' And yes, I started our exchange by attacking you, but you made this post about you. I never made my reply about me, even if you are perhaps correct, that I do violate rules which I think are stupid.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3216588#3221527

Actually, I am fine with arguing with people in authority, except that they often tend to be bullies with guns quite willing to threaten you if you calmly and logically explain to them why they are full of sh*t. I once had a foliceman basically threaten to assault or arrest me simply because I told him 'if you say so'. This was a cop who felt the need to hassle me simply because I was walking home from the 24 hour grocery store at 2 AM. True, he may have seen me puking a couple blocks before, and apparently thought to himself 'hey, there's a guy who is not feeling well. Why don't I go push him around a little, show him who's boss?'

I did not say anything about you being a piece of sh*t. My phrase was fascist wanna-be. You admit to hassling him, and partly because of his political beliefs. I think that is egregiously unAmerican, and unlike alot of DU I am not going to ebulliently espouse it just because I hate the BFEE. But all you gotta do is say "my bad, sorry" and you can walk away from this argument in one piece, before I pull out my thesaurus and make you cry (usually I do this by making people laugh so hard that tears come out of their eyes, then I declare victory and go home).