“Your constitutional rights have nothing to do with the law,” the officer said.
Is the officer really that stupid?
And if true, then kindly officer O'brian no longer exists and the Gestapo has been put in place.
I see no difference between "Your Constitutional rights have nothing to do with the law" and "Orderss iss orderss"
Most painfully is the turmoil of a man faced with making an instant decision regarding that perspective and ideology interfering with and threatening a man's freedom.
More likely, he hopes the average citizen is.