10-11-2005, 06:50 PM
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Jack Burton 
Join Date: November 10, 2001
Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux
Age: 38
Posts: 5,452
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Originally posted by Intrepid:
A class of people soley out there to go out of their way to make your life hell, they are the kind of people that picked on you in school, and now they have the right to oppress you.
If you go to them for help they don't want to know.
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Blame the governments and the bereaucrats - not the existance of the police force. It isn't the fact that they exist that rewards them for being like this - it's the policies made by high-ups that keep the people who care away from the public eye doing paperwork constantly, and put those who only care about the money trickling in on the streets and in the positions of power. The police aren't all bad - the system just works in exactly the wrong way.
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lose 3/4 of the points on our licence for not having a "P" plate on the front of our car.
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Surely loosing points is a good thing?  (Hint: demerit points == bad).
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They have the right to swear at and abuse us as they see fit,
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No they don't. I hope.
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They can hand out FALSE traffic tickets and we can't do anything unless we go to court, which invokes court fees.
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OK, now why would they? Remember that they don't get paid any more for giving out tickets.
And if that doesn't work for you, I have the perfect solution: walk.
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They are allowed to threaten us to get information, lie to us, and even break the law by interviewing us while underage as they well know is a crime without parental concent.
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Not so. If you say anything when they're not meant to be interviewing you, or if they threaten you, no court worth the money it costs will accept what was said. And the police don't decide whether you're guilty or not - there are all kinds of checks in place so that if they think you did something any more serious than parking wrong they either have to catch you red handed, or get a judge to agree that you did it. The police power is actually very limited. Well, except in places like England where it's illegal to type '../../../' in your address bar.
EDIT: As for the original article, it's called 'negligence', 'stupidity', and 'overturned'.
[ 10-11-2005, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]
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