Perhaps I was wrong to say that he didn't prove anything. He did. His actions and the posters' responses confirm that you can publish any nonsensical position on-line and get lots of people to buy in, while others see through it.
ðŸ‘
Meanwhile, most other folks would not have tunnel vision, and see through this correctly.
👠👠ðŸ‘
Gimme a break.
The guy was a complete jerk from jump street!
His wasn't a clever way to pay for a ticket; it wasn't even a clever way to
protest a perceived unfair fine (as the title of this thread should have stated).
He GAMBLED and LOST, reacted like a cry-baby when it came time to pay the piper, and took out his anger over
his own chosen fate on an undeserving third party, and grotesquely, to boot.
Excessive fine? Thats just
your own very narrow assessment of the way in which Texas protects Texans. "We don't want you speeding, so we've fixed things so it'll be painful for you if you do" is a fair attitude...one that in no way implies a police state...one that the majority of Texans who elected the people who passed the laws in question apparently support...one that Washington apparently doesn't buy into. "Excessive" isn't quantifiable; it's relative to the desired end (and, of course, the tunnel vision of the observer).
ryck's position is spot-on, and I suspect that your idea of the "most folks [who'd] see through this correctly"(
*) probably comes from a combination of your having looked into one of those facing mirror arrangements in which you see yourself from here to eternity
and your never having looked up "correctly" in a dictionary, NOT from your having assessed the reactions of the folks who've posted in this thread.
And your persistent complaining about jury trials wasting taxpayer dollars demonstrates a VERY FRIGHTENING and, VERY UNFORTUNATELY, GROWING lack of appreciation by Americans for the wisdom inherent our Constitution and the benefits it has bestowed upon us and our forbears
who fought for them.
The right to a trial by jury under ANY circumstances is NEVER to be sneezed at.Oh, sure, in
any population there'll be some people who'll buy into and applaud
any display of stupidity no matter how gross it is, but luckily for America, those people don't rule the roost, and hopefully they never will.
(
*) You often state opinions as if you're actually speaking for "other folks", and perhaps you are, but if you are I'd like to know who they are and by what authority and in what capacity you're speaking for them.
Oh, and "liking" your own posts isn't cricket, although it is in keeping with your high opinion of your own opinions; thumbs ups from others are the only ones that count.
