Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R.D.Lang

An un-named lawyer from an un-named law firm in an un-named country had a very important case in court today.

She woke up bright and early after calculating the time that it'll take her to commute to the courts.
40 minutes [+ 30 minutes in case of traffic jam].

She gets in her car, puts on some nice, relaxing music and heads towards the city. Everything is going on smoothly until she reaches this un-named road.

The cars are lined up for miles and miles. And the traffic's not crawling... it's not inching forward.. it's just not moving at all!

The un-named lawyer sighs.
What could possibly be happening? This road is always busy but it's never had unmoving traffic before. Maybe it's an accident... and knowing the nature of the citizens of this un-named country, they'll stop and gawk at the accident scene even if it's just a little fender-bender.

She waits.
The car inches forward.
She sighs... maybe it's not a fender-bender, maybe someone's dead.
The car inches forward.
She groans.
The car inches forward.
She looks at the time... crap!
She curses.
The car inches forward.
She outright yells and prays loudly to God to get her out of there.
The car inches forward..... and turns a corner.....

........... and she sees the cause of the whole stupid traffic clog.

Three police cars are lined up by the side of the road... while several policemen are posing in their boots and tight pants by the side of the road.
The police officers are stopping some cars who then have to also line up by the side of the road - Thus, the entire lane is blocked to traffic.

The un-named lawyer's jaw is clenched.
She inches forward, wishing that she was in a bicycle... a unicycle.. a skateboard, whatever.
Too late.

A severe-looking policeman with a thin moustache waves at her to stop.

She curses and swears and clenches her fist... but she pulls over and joins the others by the side of the road.

(((rolls down window)))
"Yes officer?"
"License please."
(((gives him her license)))
"What's going on officer?"
"Oh, we're conducting random checks."
Un-named lawyer closes her eyes and counts to ten.
"Random checks? Is this REALLY necessary at 8.30 am in the morning on a weekday at RUSH hour where people are rushing to get to work?"
Officer unperturbed.
"Oh. It's part of our job."
Un-named lawyer plays with fire. She figures, she's going to get yelled at by the damn judge, the snooty client and the boss anyway so why the hell should THIS dude have a nice day...
"Part of your job? Random checks? Fine. But this is ridiculous! You KNOW this road is busy... You KNOW people are rushing to work... You KNOW that blocking this road will inconvenience sooo many people. This is just plain stupid!"
Officer looks up from his stupid memo pad, opens his mouth to say something intelligent and gets his first look at the manic eyes of the un-named lawyer.
"Uhm... o-kay.. go on... you can go now".
Officer sashays back to his patrol car.

The un-named lawywer rolls up her window, steps on the gas and speeds of to court...
Her mind is reeling with the stupidity of "those who are trained to protect us".

She remembers the time a crossroad was jammed up because the traffic lights were not working...

A police hut was situated right on the curb near the traffic lights. Two policemen were in it. They were watching the chaos and confusion of drivers trying to selfishly go their way while honking like madmen.

Of course, the crossroad was then jammed up. NO ONE was going ANYWHERE. All they could do was sit in their cars and lean on the horn. (Citizens of this un-named country are the 'best' drivers in the world...)

One annoyed driver got out of his vehicle and approached the police hut.

"Officers, could you possibly help us out here? The situation needs to be controlled."

"No."

" ---- Why not?"

"It's not our job... we're not TRAFFIC police."

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Defamation suits and the Internal Security Act (ISA) does not apply to tales of un-named lawyers from an un-named law firms in un-named countries...
So Go Away, troublemakers