While I'm no serious analyst of this stuff, it's gotta be said that Tyson wasn't too bad either.. And while he was kinda messed up to begin with, he hasn't really changed. Whereas Ali... well, he's not in his prime, for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYZzMPsm6c4

Longtime lurker, but registered because I just wanted to add my voice to the discussion.

http://www.usconstitution.net/miranda.html

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning."

I suppose we can argue about whether or not the driver was being rude. We're all free to draw our own conclusions and have our own opinions about that - one of the nice things about having freedom.

But I don't think there's a whole lot of argument over whether or not he was within his rights. I'd like to think that it's possible to exercise one's rights without being rude, but in this particular case, with this particular right - choosing to remain silent - I'm not sure how else one can remain silent without at least some subset of people considering it to be rude.

My own feelings on the subject though, are that it's a downright scary *concept* to think that it would be rude to exercise one's right - generally speaking. The kind of negative connotation that carries seems like an awfully slippery slope leading to some scary places. That's how I perceive it, anyway.