Just got a ticket for this.

[sbergman27]

Originally Posted by jamal1984

As my first posted say, i don't get mad for getting this ticket.

You are doing very well there, then. I think you should be concerned. And posting here demonstrates that you are.

I would be *angry* and concerned. To be sure, anger is a double-edged sword. Anger can prompt us to take action which we might otherwise be too lazy or distracted to take... or it can cloud our perspective.

I don't think that those agencies who abuse their authority really want cases which involve their abuses paraded before the courts. The courts *could* put a crimp in their style. Concerning my own recent adventure, I considered contacting an attorney, or an organization like the ACLU, to see what, likely small, action I could take too bring this incident to the attention of at least someone in the legal branch of government. I haven't. The infraction, in my example, was relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.

But still, what we're seeing can be viewed as death by a thousand cuts for principles which we thought we held sacred.

There are a lot of right laws out there that i absolutely agreed to it, example.....Speeding, super dark window tinting, hit and run.....loud speakers....

Indeed. I would agree. Others' freedom ends where my nose begins. And rattling the plates in all the houses one passes is... well... in a great show of restraint, I won't call for capitol punishment on that one. Just 25 years in a federal penitentiary, say. ;-)

But when it's come to something like this, in my 2cents it's Stupid, they are Bullying us, Harassing innocent peoples, trying to make revenue out of us, we are tax payers.

It's not just stupid. It's dangerous to the long-term health of our society. To be sure, we have lots of those. But this is a symptom of something that really eats at the foundations.

The fact that you or I got stopped and harassed is of no fundamental consequence. But the general trend, going far beyond traffic issues, *is*.

-Steve