What's unproductive is you complaining about other's rights to express themselves. Regardless of how dull, pointless, and uninteresting it is.
My analogy points to the fact that you seem incapable of "changing the channel" when you see something you don't like.
The funny thing is that OP's post reads just like a blog entry.
Tell me, when your television set is displaying a show that you don't like, do you get up and change the channel or just scream in its general direction until it changes itself?
Correction to OP......
"Seriously, why...
Never trust a cop. Ever.
I've seen plenty of people abused/assaulted/arrested by cops who were doing nothing wrong. I have a couple of friends who got their pix in the paper after being senselessly brutalized by cops around here. They are always absolved of their wrongdoings, and usually...
As for taking samples, a turkey baster soaked in iodophor works fine for me.
For siphoning, an auto-siphon makes everything a breeze. Check you LHBS for this.