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From: ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Help me fight unfair speeding ticket
Message-ID: <1867@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 09:01:37 EST
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1867
Posted: Thu Feb 13 09:01:37 1986
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> > In article <13200031@hpfcla.UUCP> ajs@hpfcla.UUCP writes:
> > >In the past I've read with detached amusement various postings about
> > >speeding tickets.  Now, after being branded a criminal on the way in to
> > >work, it's suddenly all very real to me.  :-)
> > >
> > 
> > Jeeze! You WERE speeding. You KNEW you could get a ticket for it, but you
> > did it anyway. Now perhaps it's time to grow up and accept responsibility
> > for your actions. PAY UP! I am amazed by the number of people in America
> > who just refuse to accept the consequences of their actions.
> > 
> > 	--MKR
> 
> HEAR, HEAR!!!  I too am amazed how many Americans are unwilling to accept
> the consequences of their actions.  Just looking at all the court cases where
> they use plea bargaining to reduce sentences makes me sick.  Why don't we 
> start enforcing the laws of the land for once.  If you do wrong be prepared
> to suffer the consequences!
I have an even better idea: return our legal system to its common law roots.
If the speed limit on that stretch of road was artificially low, the limit
should be changed.  Under a common law system, laws whose basis are questioned
by as large a segment of the population as
 questions  55 would simply not exist.> Anyway, some of you seem ready to
convict the original poster of a crime against society without hearing
all of the evidence.  What if the limit on the stretch of road was
artifically lower than engineers' estimates for political reasons, or
maybe it is a real, intended speed trap (not likely, since most police
departments are fairly professional and responsible)?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Rick Braman
> FutureNet Corp. a division of Data I/O Corp.
> Redmond, WA
> 
> UUCP:  uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!braman

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