My Speeding Ticket Trial

[rickyjo]

The situation with traffic cameras sickens me. Haven't we all been stuck behind a grandma that couldn't muster up 12mph in an intersection and caused you to be stuck in the middle of things when you, her and a few others should have cleared the light easily?

Colorado springs has erected at least five of these disgusting apparatuses. Well, our city is desperate for money, so this does not surprise me.

Neither does it register strange that people rot in jail for months waiting for trials that dismissed for lack of evidence and receive no compensation, nor am I impressed over the stories of multi-year court battles over nothing costing defendants huge sums of money for crimes they did not commit. These things have become common-place, boring, and accepted. We've lost our American soul, every-time I hear another story I try to rekindle my outrage and desire to do something about it, but it seems more and more commonplace, and too big to fight.

Legalized incarceration of innocent youth, the damning behavior of police that is let go constantly (in some jurisdictions), imprisonment of petty offenders and continued freedom and power of the real criminals, misapplied laws condemning those it was not intended to apply to. What good is bureaucracy if it doesn't even serve to protect and produce caution?

This has made me so angry I think I have no choice but to go on a walk, and hope that I don't accidentally break some kind of fringe rule that some cop happens to know.

I'm totally going to end up in jail. I wonder if the day is coming when these very comments will be the reason.