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To: Dan from Michigan
Breaking traffic laws isn't breaking the law. It's just.....um, breaking rules.
Besides, bad laws are made to be broken.

Relative morality in the Land of 1001 Excuses.

2 posted on 04/10/2005 8:45:34 AM PDT by starfish923
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To: starfish923

Traffic tickets = Revenue generation


4 posted on 04/10/2005 8:47:45 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: starfish923

If the speed limits are being set illegally (ie, not per the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or MUTCD, which has been adopted as LAW by every state, whose governments ignore it so that they can set the speed limits artificially low to engage in revenue generation) then is it really breaking the law to violate them?

The MUTCD sets forth a standard whereby the speed limit is to be set at the speed at which the 85th percentile driver drives. If everyone is "speeding" it's an indication that the speed limit is too low, not that everyone is a scofflaw.

If the government won't abide by the law, then why should the citizens, particularly when the "offense" is merely malum prohibitum and not malum per se.


9 posted on 04/10/2005 8:54:30 AM PDT by Altamira (Get the UN out of the US, and the US out of the UN!)
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To: starfish923

This sounds very much like Mr.&Mrs.BeelzeBubba's utter contempt for Law and Order!!We don't want to go there again,do we?


21 posted on 04/10/2005 9:06:58 AM PDT by bandleader
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