🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 04:07:41 GMT, Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) wrote:

>player1@not.replyable.com (Jim String) wrote:
>
>>>>In principle I agree with this however if the policy's intent is to
>>>>legislate a law so others can break the law then we've gone too far.
>
>>>For once, you are right.  They should just raise the limit by 20mph an
>>>post a minimum at the current limit.  But, it is easier to just have
>>>conflicting laws that the police their descretion to descriminate
>>>with.  Plus, the cops like that better.  Not that they have to worry
>
>>Now that's a scary thought. You're saying something akin to "make
>>everything illegal, then we can bust whomever we don't like..."
>
>I break at least one law a day.  I don't know anyone that drives every
>day that doesn't break at least one law a day.  Everything is already
>illegal, so why would they need any more laws to make criminals out of
>us?

The question is whether you do it inadvertently or deliberately.

>
>>>about having reasons anymore, since it was declared that abiding by
>>>traffic laws in unusual enough to warrant reasonable suspicion...
>
>>Declared where? I must say that to me this sounds like a "Very Bad Thing."
>
>It was a finding that was publicized in the Dallas paper because it
>was in reference to a Texas case that started not too far from Dallas.
>There was a cop that pulled over the only non-speeding car on the road
>because that was unusual behavior.  The judge ruled that following the
>laws with the laws being so uniformly disregarded was sufficient for
>reasonable suspicion.

Citation please.

>
>I don't see why it is a big deal, though.  In TX they can pull you
>over just to check and see if you have a license...

No, actually they cannot.   


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Scott Weiser

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