RE: I'm with Khan

["Will @ The GMS" <will@givemeslack.com>]

Hi D.J.

A few things I wanted to point out in regards to your post:

1. While it is noble to admit when one is wrong and take your "medicine"
there is nothing noble about falling into "traps" created by "the system"

Most of us live in areas where speed limits are there less for public safty
and more as a revenue generating device for the local law enforcment
agencies.

Here in South Carolina (I'm moving to Virgina Beach next week - thank bob)
we have whole entire towns which subsist soley on penelizing driving
enthusiast.  (The joke is circular reasoning - we need a radar equiped
patrol car so we can catch more speeders, so we can buy more cruisers, so we
can catch more speeders... and so on.)

How bad has it gotten?  In Greenville County (SC) there are stretches of
Intersate 85 which are patroled not by motor cycle or cruiser cops.... but
by light aircraft circling over over passes timing speeders based upon how
quickly they pass over white lines on the road.  Once they spot a speeder
they radio to a waiting squad car to pull the person.  Cameras are also
being installed which will take pictures of licence plates and mail you a
ticket.

In a perfect world we'd be able to zip along in our high performance, highly
responsive VWs while the guy in the 1978 buick going 90mph would get pulled.

Unfourtunatly "the system" weeds out cops who have the ability to use
critial thinking skills and instead places bitter, low paid, under educated
people in positions of power.  All too often the jealously these people feel
for our higher paying jobs and nicer cars translates in to a not so nice
ticket where a more understanding person would let us slide.

2.  Let's try to keep religion out of polotics and law making.  Either that
or let's tax the churches.  Your god may want you to be honest and fair and
all that jazz... but I'm sure he doesn't intend for you to be duped in to
falling prey to a courput system (created by "the" man) which filches from
the masses and gives to the status quo.

Anyway... that's my 2 cents.

There is this great book you should all check out called The Outlaws
Handbook (or is it The Outlaws Bible?) - anyway it is a good source book for
understand "the system" and gives examples for dealing with tickets, car
searches and stuff like that.  I was trying to find an ISBN but cant now.  I
think I bought my copy via Fantagraphics: www.fantagraphics.com

G'day List,

   - Will @ The GMS

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.com [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.com]On Behalf
Of D.J. Bergesen
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:32 AM
To: jettaglx@igtc.com
Subject: I'm with Khan


That's right, I agree 200% with Khan. And oh, by the way, I've received five
tickets in my life and I've paid every one, even when I found out from
friends that I could get out of them, avoid paying, and avoid insurance
hikes. You know why? Because I broke the law. And three out of five times
the police reduced the ticket on the spot because I admitted fault and
didn't fight their enforcement of the law.

And another 'by the way': This country was built on, and continues to run
loosely on LAWS, NOT loopholes. The laws that were founded were based
heavily on Judeo-Christian laws and principles, and have allowed us much
freedom that we have neither deserved nor used properly. Those loopholes are
what undermine the effectiveness of law because they destroy the INTEGRITY
of the fundamental beliefs the laws were built on in the first place. No
building stands without a foundation. Judeo-Christian laws WERE the
foundation, and loopholes that allow rapists to roam free are what turn the
foundation to SWISS FLIPPIN' CHEESE. Obey the law, accept responsibility for
your actions (another fundamental failure of our narcisistic, vain,
materialistic culture - no one will accept the consequences anymore), and
pay the damned ticket you greedy kid!

DJ -
A Christian man, and a United States Naval Officer - who, by the way,
PROTECTS YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS BY SACRIFICING HIS OWN!
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