Euclid wrote:
Hi oliverthered,
the phrase buggers muddle is new to me, I see the dictionary say in means messed up, misguided or confused. The police are often drawn to innocent people who appear to be unusual, even in case where no criminality is involved. That has happened to me and I find it very destructive (^ weeks sick leave from work at present).
When you refer to "English rights of law" is this a reference to common law as opposed to statute law? There is a defence in common law know by the Latin tag of Mens Rea. It says that to be convicted of an offence you should have a guilty mind - but I cannot see that is relevant if you are just speaking to the police.
Typically the police's knowledge of there matter is close to nil, so I'd suggest maintaining close contact with doctors and keeping away from the police.
In my ten years+ (26 if you count the time I went when I was 6), the doctors knowledge has been significantly at fault, in-fact they have made more errors than truths, they put me on medication for 5 years that chemically lobotomized me and I had 7 months of discontinuation syndrome.
On the other had, police deal with all kind of people all the time. They know what a criminal looks like compared to someone with aspergers. not only that the legal system is designed to detect such people, they stand out like a saw thumb. Unlike normal, scary, people the police have to obey and follow a strict set of rules. Now I can easily run rings around any set of rules like that. That's because there put in place in such a way that any 'normal' person either would not notice them, or would not be able to follow through.
The bugger's muddle, is the criminal rights you are given before being questioned or as part of.
It's a bugger's muddle because its impossible to answer, without the law actually breaching your rights, because it's impossible to answer otherwise.
'normal' people would either not be able to answer them in a correct way (which would either mean they had breached their rights or were lying) or would just answer them in the way normal people would.
The criminal system can efficiently identify a certain group of people with 3 simple (or not so simple) questions.
As part of the process I'll have to get my diagnosis changed, and that will be arranged by my solicitor not the police. That has already been put in-place because the police called a doctor out at 4am because they felt I may have a medical condition that met I could not be held or questioned.
I think you'll find the police are actually some what more tooled up and equipped for a fast accurate diagnoses, much quicker than the medical profession can roll out.
I'm not talking to the police, I'm going through the process of having my medical condition recognized in law. and recognised in such a way that I cannot be held or questioned again, because to do so would breach my rights.