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I have to see a Magistrate tomorrow about an expired inspection sticker. Missed day of work, and that damned sticker wound up costing me $350. The ticket was issued for $25. The rest are fees. Oh, and I received a letter that there is a bench warrant for me because I didn’t respond in time too. So that’s another $98.

Funny, isn't it, just how much is fixed by the right amount of money paid?

In some countries, it's just called what it is, bribery and extortion.

What a racket.

Now this is something that I’m trying very hard to phrase correctly with the crew here at FR, and with right-wing folks in general.

I try to explain how people hate the police to people who merely dismiss them as idiots and morons.

The poor only have a problem with police because they lack the ability (Talent, skill, intelligence or simply face-to-face capability) to take their viewpoint to the masses.

They are generally low-IQ people who can’t muster the proper way to deal with issues in a civilized society of .. what... 3 billion people ?

So they take it out on the extended arm of the problem - The boys in blue.

The poor (read: most black people) don’t hate cops for reasons of race. They hate cops because the cop is the one who has to leave the ivory tower and deal with the lumpen proletariat. They are the ones who are shoved into the line of fire - the ones who hit the streets and deal with the unruly, degenerate serfs.

Those people have a problem with the ENTIRE system. They feel that they “can’t” make a better life for themselves because when they get a job at McDonalds, work for 8 weeks to afford a $500 car they’ll only have to work another 8 weeks to afford insurance and plates. When they get pulled over, the situation is worse because the fines easily cost more than the car. And they will get pulled over because they drive shitty cars with parts hanging off and a backseat of people who are turning to them for rides.

But the truth is that it’s very hard for most americans to make it these days. The rules have changed and every generation is faced with problems that are significantly different than the ones from the previous generation.

They aren’t angry at cops. They know the buck doesn’t stop nor start with cops. The cops are the enforcers of the ridiculous and pretzel-logic entrapment fines and fees and SOP from the courts. THAT is the problem.

The cop gets the brunt of the attack because they can’t reach the courts and the lawmakers to affect that change. And it may be because they are too uneducated to properly string the words together to do so. But either way, when they say they are trapped - to them, they believe that.