It gets hard keeping track of all the rhetoric here without a racing form... ;-)

Okay, Don T., I did make a mistake there...it was you who put forward the "duck" analogy. Sorry about that.

Anyway, I still think that such analogies are often mistaken in the case of specific individuals. You see all the unnecessary nonsense I've been put through by police officers in my life....they were all SURE I must be a drug user, hell, probably a dealer! Why? Well, I did have the very long hair, the blue jeans, the guitar....duh! Ever try convincing a suspicious cop that you don't have drugs on you? It's like trying to convince the JDL that you're not anti-semitic, once their suspicion has been riveted on you.

Hopeless. You can't convince a mind that's on a vendetta of anything.

So...you just let them go through their routine, whatever the hell it is, answer their stupid questions calmly, present them with the bare facts (in my case: "no drugs here"), and eventually they give up and go away....probably muttering to themselves, "I'll nail that damn pot smokinng hippy son of a bitch next time..."