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Old 09-24-2002, 05:42 PM   #22
AzRaeL StoRmBlaDe
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Join Date: October 11, 2001
Location: At My Computer
Age: 44
Posts: 2,217
Ticketing speeders may be a law, but a ridiculous one, reckless driving, yes that should be a ticketable offense, if you are driving out of control, even going 20 you are a danger and should be dealt with, but lets say you are on the freeway cruising at 80 and there is almost no one else on the road on a sunday afternoon, whats the point in taking radar when the police could be preventing a real crime that would have a real victim. I got a speeding ticket a while back, and in the city i live in on top of court costs, which is complete BS they made me pay a victims fee. that is completely ridiculous. And as for my friend OK he had a tail light out that he was unaware of, maybe it even burned out as he was driving to where he was going that day, they give him a ticket, maybe a bit excessive, but whatever, police like to waste everyone's time, either way what right do they have to search his car? thats a complete perversion of the bill of rights, which was set up i remind everyone by our founding fathers, who knew how valueable these rights were and knew that they needed to be protected at all costs, because one could not live in a free society if they were not guaranteed these unalienable rights. granted with slavery and women's right not everyone was entitled to these at first, and that was a travesty, and in my consideration a dark point in american history, but now everyone is 'guaranteed' these rights, but that guarantee is hollow, because it is not delivered, and the people that are mean to enforce these basical laws for the safety and well being of our society waste their time on things of much lesser importance. This whole attitude completely disgusts me, as it should any American. Even people not doing anything wrong 'fear' police harassment, and thats just not the way things were intended.
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