I wonder what the law is in your state if your dog gets loose? Does the cop get to shoot it?
You sound very inflexible. In your minds eye, the law is the law. I believe that a good police officer evaluates each situation, and makes a judgment based on the situation.
I also believe in jury nullification. Sometimes, laws made by the government are ridiculous.
Actually I do feel good about that traffic law and so do most Texans.
No, we don’t vote for each law, but we do vote for every elected official that wrote that law so the impact is still the same. We have the government that we want and it is doing what we want for us. That is good government.
I agree that some laws are stupid, but that is why we have the right to try and change any laws that we dislike. However, until the law is changed, we still have to follow it unless it violates a Constitutional right. Otherwise we have anarchy or a liberal who wants to pick and choose which laws to follow.
In this case, her rights were not violated. A traffic stop, telling her to put her cig out, telling her to get out of the car...none of that violated her Constitutional rights. She should have complied at the time and worked to change that law later or complain about it later.
So you want flexibility?? Ok, so what laws should be enforced? Who gets to choose? Do we only enforce some laws on some people?? Yes, the law is the law.
We are a nation of laws. If you don’t like the law then change it. Texans do like the law so we’re sticking with it and we expect it to be enforced equally and we expect you and everyone else to obey it. If you choose to ignore our laws like she did then be prepared to suffer the consequences and remember that you made the choice to defy the people.