Although they aren't mentioned, many states have also staged East German style 'safety' checkpoints to confirm - wait for it - seat belt and infant seat use. Many of us can recall seat belt laws first being proposed with the promise that they wouldn't become primary violations (i.e. you can be stopped/ticketed for that reason alone). Like all promises from statists, it was a lie. Now the police will gladly wipe their feet on the 4th Amendment as they impede your right to travel.
Also left out are the crimes committed while the police are out collecting revenue. Memorial Day weekend featured riots in various cities. One authority figure admitted the state police were unprepared to respond. Could it be that they were engaged in other activities (funded by Uncle Sam) at the time?
Despite most FReepers' healthy skepticism of government and its machinations there are many who seem to believe that black-on-white speed limit signs were placed by a divine hand rather than by bureaucrats who intentionally ignore the recommendations of traffic engineers.
I can beat that one. On Memorial day weekend I got pulled over and fined for not wearing a seatbelt. I was only 1/4 mile from my neighborhood which was in view.
The police office who was a nice young lady told me she hates Seatbelt Awareness month where she is assigned to stake out middle class low crime residential neighborhoods to trap law-biding citizens to issue them $25 fines with no points for not wearing seatbelts. You can bet she didnt see that on those police shows she watched as a child that made her want the job.
Better yet, when they passed the seatbelt laws here the police said they would not use it to pull over motorists, but that was well over a decade ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxTNZUhesZk
It is impossible to parody liberals. They take it as a suggestion of what to do.
‘...who pose no threat to others.’
In court it will be claimed that the mere act of speeding is the threat. Judges everywhere eat it up. In fact speeding itself isn’t the problem but rather gradient between speeds. Frankly, the biggest safety problem in this mix is police conduct. They speed to catch the speeder going well above prevailing traffic flow. This in itself is a big problem. Then they often block traffic flow to give the ticket. Even if they don’t traffic has to accommodate them which slows everything WAY down. Speed laws should be guidelines not hard and fast limits. However, as we all know its not about safety, its about making $.
As I like to point out...
[Solving] Crime doesn’t pay, giving out tickets does.
It's a shakedown. It's all about money - Your money and my money being robbed at gunpoint by armed revenue collection agents under the color of law. A fine example of insurance companies and government working hand in hand to empty the wallets of the driving populace. "to extort and oppress"
there are many who seem to believe that black-on-white speed limit signs were placed by a divine hand
Entirely too many who post on this site as well.
When I get an unfair ticket, especially if it is local, I won’t buy anything in that county or town again. I have traveled all over the country.
Thank you SCOTUS for that decision allowing DUI checkpoints and opening up this entire can of worms.
The same session by the way that decided that burning the American Flag was hunky-dory.
Part of me wants to drive up to a DUI checkpoint, get out of my car and set fire to a flag. Would tie up our entire Federal court system for the next 13 years while they figured out what to do with me.
Heheheh.. Well done. And very accurate.
It's the LAW! Conservatives are not on our side at all. We are free or we are not. There is no middle ground.
“...Operation Air, Land and Speed,...”
and
“...Click It! Or Ticket!”...
and
“...“highway safety corridor”...
Aw, gee, ain’t they just, just, the GINCHIEST!?!?! They’re SOOOOOOOOOOO creative with these imaginative catchy phrases!!! Wish I could be THAT smart!
My heroes...{sigh}...they’re just so, so DREAMY in their little Gestapo boots...especially the 400-pound affirmative action female orificers...oops, I meant “officers”...
UCC 1-207/308
Many times, if you fight the ticket in court, the cop won't show and the judge will dismiss.
Depends on what type of infraction also. If you don't have a valid license or insurance, it probably won't work.