Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: kw.general,ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Keywords: speed limits
Message-ID: <3217@looking.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 06:37:08 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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I know this isn't can.politics, but it's worth remembering that amongst
the worst kind of laws are the laws that everybody breaks.

They make everybody a lawbreaker or scofflaw, and that means that effectively
any citizen can be stopped by the police any time the police feel like it.

Who comes to a full stop, for example?  Nobody.  So if the police feel like
pulling you over, they can, any time.  What judge would trust your word over
an officer's that you didn't come to a full stop.  The JUDGE never comes
to a full stop, I'll bet.  I will bet he speeds, too, as do the cops, on and
off duty.

We do have some laws that prohibit the police from abusing this, but it's
very hard to prove.

It also creates general disrespect for the law.  All in all it's a very
bad thing.  In some police states, they make sure that everybody not only
breaks the HTA, but the criminal code as well.  It makes it very easy to
get political prisoners on criminal charges.
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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473