I was in court in Santa Cruz last year for a traffic violation.
First guy is called, judge asks what the ticket was for, the guy (via interpreter) answers, “Driving with no license”
Judge immediately addresses the whole courtroom via interpreter, “Show of hands of how many are here ONLY for that particular same infraction...?”
A sea of hands go up AND THE JUDGE SUMMARILY BULK EXCUSES **ALL** OF THEM....!!!
“These people are here for no other reason than THE WAY the law was written....”
And —presto!— they lined up to square away their paperwork, and were gone.
Know what? In many cases they do NOT have to obey the laws of California.
We have a rich coast and a dirt poor interior, and there are TWO classes of people; honkies mired in laws and regulation and Mexicans who live in this eery extension of Mexico.
It was like that when the barbarians took over Rome too.