Why you should never talk to the police.

[Peter Lemkin]

All very well in the "land of the free" :proud: but here in Blighty there's not that choice. If you don't talk to the police and they decide to prosecute you, that alone can be used as evidence of your guilt.

I didn't know that....and that is quite insane and horrible. Why would one want to self-incriminate themselves or help to be set-up? Silence is not guilt. Proof of guilt is guilt. And what if one can't speak.....let alone just doesn't want to! So, if the police have come in to set you up as a terrorrist and while one bloke is asking questions of you, the others are searching your flat for the best place to hide the bomb making equiptment they brought with them, you have to be talkin?! Do you have to be answering their questions or can you just be reciting poetry and Shakespeare from memory......?! In some ways the UK is one step ahead of the US on the yellow brick road to a police state! How completely British logic...let me guess...the thinking was just as one of your statesmen once said, 'Gentlemen don't read other gentlemen's man [wrong!], they figured innocent people LOVE their local police and SIS and would just LOVE to chat them up over tea and scones [wrong!]