British Professor finds out the hard way that you don't disrespect American police.

On January 4th of this year, one of Britiin's academics decided that he was too important to bother with police officer in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I could have told him that it wasn't a good idea to try to brush off an American law enforcement officer who is trying to talk to you, or refuse to give that officer your identification. But he didn't ask me. He learned that lesson himself the hard way.

According to this story in the British Press, "Professor Fernandez-Armesto, professor of global environmental history at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of Oxford University's modern history faculty, was left "traumatised and disorientated" and with a gash on his forehead before he was charged with pedestrian failure to obey a police officer." Better yet, "In scenes of "terrible, terrible violence", as the distinguished academic recalled them yesterday, he had his legs kicked from beneath him and was pinned to the ground by five officers before being handcuffed to another felon and locked up for eight hours."

Yeah, that happens when you commit a POP violation here. (Piss Off the Police)

However, before anyone reads Professor Fernandez-Armesto's rather creative version about what happened that fateful morning, it would do well to read the actual police report written by the arresting officer. The report sheds quite a bit of light on Fernandez-Armesto's behavior and attitude, and after reading that, I can honestly say that I'd probably have locked him up too.

But the best comedy still comes from the Professor's own version.

The professor added: "He said: 'I am going to arrest you.' In the culture I come from this wouldn't mean that the conversation was over.

I guess in "his culture", "You're under arrest" means "let's debate this for a while."

"Naturally I was bridling. I had five burly policemen pinioning me to the ground, pressing my neck with really very severe pain. I'm a mass of contusions and grazes. I still find it incredible that an aging, mild-mannered professor of impeccable antecedent, should be the subject of such abominable treatment."

Do people in Britain actually talk like that? No wonder that this humble colony of ours beat them so easily. Our Revolutionary troops actually had testosterone.

The next day in court the charges were dropped - to the relief of the professor who feared a criminal record and the loss of his green card. (He also works at Tufts University, Massachusetts.)

Massachussetts. That figures. This guy fits right in with John Kerry, Barney Frank and those annoying Kennedys. But shame on the court for dropping the charge. He should have been hammered with Resisting at the very least, and if he is so scornful of our country and our ways, why is he worried that he might have to leave? His deportation should be a national ballot question in the 2008 elections.

However I really loved it when the Professor made this statement:

"It was a fantastic experience going into that detention centre and spending time with those miserable wretches of the earth."

Spoken like a true liberal. Champions of the poor, but only from a distance. When condemning conservatives, the poor are always spoken of as if they are nobility. But if one actually has to associate with them, they're detestable. Proving once again that a Liberal is someone who claims to advocate for the people that he would not allow into his neighborhood or family.

My advice to the Professor: If you think you got it bad in Atlanta, try that in New Orleans with NOPD.

Or wait until I get back to work. I'll lock your ass up too if you try to walk away from me and refuse to produce ID. This is America (Est. 1776) and we have our own laws here which you, as a visitor, need to abide by of face the consequences.

Good job, Ofc. Leonpacher, APD. I definitely have your back on this one.