A physical confrontation would be playing right into the hands of the student protesters, but more than that, Truman, who had devoted his life to the academy, couldn't stomach the thought of a thousand cops in riot helmets storming the campus.
Basically, if a person says "no" say "thank you anyways" and don't give them a second thought, lest they call the cops for harassment.
For instance, on discovering Yoorana's undead, the cop's first thought is that they've been out on an all-night bender.
By copping that plea, some thought, he avoided harder questions, which might have passed closer to Nixon's head.Point-man for JesusBut between the Ellsberg incident and the prison Mr Colson had transferred his unstoppable, driving energies to another boss.
Did they think I was a cop, some kind of thought police swooping down on this tiny village, some 230km north-west of Athens, near the Gorgopotamos river where – so the villagers all informed me – Hercules died.
"My first thought was, 'Do we need another cop show?' " said Butler.
We'd do well to pause from time to time and to give serious thought to what we ask of our cops.
