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To: Altariel

You’re not serious, are you? Law enforcement has historically and traditionally in America been granted statutory exemption from many laws during the prosecution of their duties, in order to enable them to more successfully apprehend criminals. The same with firefighters and ambulances. Would you want to be bleeding out from a wound and have the ambulance you are in stopped and waiting for the light to change at the next intersection because some dumb idiot in the legislature believed everyone without exception should be at all times subject to the traffic codes in the interests of the false god of “equality”?


22 posted on 10/17/2015 10:59:16 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

A child molester is a criminal (yet officers write letters asking for a more lenient sentence when the criminal is an officer.)

A mother picking up her child is not a criminal.

At least not in a free country.


36 posted on 10/17/2015 1:03:47 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: 4Runner
There is a HUGE difference between responding to an emergency situation and considering oneself above the rules for the plebes. The key phrase in your diatribe is during the prosecution of their duties

Example #1: Police officer in a cruiser parked in a way that blocks a driveway in order to run a radar trap at the bottom of a hill. The owner of the home was written a ticket for having the audacity to tell the cop to move so the homeowner could get out!

Example #2: Police officer (different jurisdiction) parked on the wrong side of the street within 2 feet of the travelled portion of the road, once again running a radar trap at the bottom of a hill in a speed transition zone.

Example #3: Multiple police officers simultaneously parking their cruisers in a no stopping zone while on a break.

There are dozens more similar anecdotes that I and others can relate, but I think you get the drift.

The way I see it, those fellow citizens whom are entrusted with the enforcement of our laws are also beholden to them, and in fact should be more severely punished for breaching that trust when they abrogate their duties to the public. They should be MORE cognizant of any potential breach of any regulation they enforce.

45 posted on 10/18/2015 12:18:13 PM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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