"...I was exercising my rights by not answering any questions."
So the police pulled you over, and you decided to be uncooperative and rude. You do have a right to stand up against the police, and I applaud your efforts, however, don't expect police to cut you any slack in the aftermath.
I guess you're a person who'd rather be right than happy. Good for you, I'm sure it'll be worth the expense and trouble from all of the tickets you're going to receive after you assert your rights to every cop you come across. Give 'em hell, tiger.
Perhaps I'm a coward, but I play things a bit differently. For example, the other week, at around 2 am in San Francisco, I was picking up a passenger and I somehow rolled well past the red pedestrian light on 4th street in SOMA. The light is mid-block, not at an intersection and its function is only to stop traffic for pedestrians. As I was already pulled over curbside and the passenger was another 30 or 40 feet ahead, I rolled up to him slowly and the cops saw me and had me dead-to-rights, running a red light. I was as polite as possible with them and I explained that I was a newbie Uber driver and that I realized that I was paying too much attention to my navigator app, as opposed to focusing on traffic and that I was going to shift my attention back to my driving from then on. I really did feel like a prize asshole, especially since I haven't had a moving violation in over 25 years. I felt bad about my mistake and I think the cops could easily sense that.
The cops decided to play it cool with me and let me off with a warning. That was very nice of them, it saved me hundreds of dollars, and I'm a lot more careful and focused in my driving ever since I made that one, stupid mistake and got caught for it. When I got pulled over, I could have "exercised my rights" by not answering any of their questions, but I would not have been let off with only a warning if I had done so. Not only that, but much like you, I was clearly in the wrong, but I clearly had a better outcome than you.
Have fun in court. It's going to be a hoot if they play the dashboard cam video of you flipping off the cops. The judge is going to love that one and I'm sure he'll see that you realize the mistake you made and that you'll be more careful from now on.