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Originally Posted by David Merrill
The lesson being, that state citizenship is a tough row to hoe anywhere when you consider you defeat the cash cow of traffic infractions - a major cash cow anywhere. In Texas and California it is possible to access a foundation in law for such claims. In states like Colorado Refusal for Cause in the cognizance of the US through an evidence repository is much more stable.
Regards,
David Merrill.
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I have no knowledge him being a mason, as he's never divulged any of that information with me. He has just been knighted though, and is now Sir Richard. He's a good, upstanding guy. VERY knowledgeable.
Interesting story though.
And as far as the "tough row to hoe," aint that the truth. If you mess with the proverbial cash cow, there is no argument or status anywhere that's going to be successful without EVERYone waking up simultaneously to shut it down. Well, at least enough to force the issue.
I had the courts dead to rights over the past few years, and they were deaf, dumb and blind. My issues were the noncriminality of traffic "infractions" and the limited authority of California peace officers to criminal activity as authorized in PC 830.1(a). I had Legislative Drafts "saying" they were noncriminal, but "procedurally" to be handled as criminal. I got admissions in open court "on record" from two different judges, in two different cases "ADMITTING" traffic infractions were noncriminal. A separate Superior Court Appellate Division case, Court of Appeal in the very same District I was appearing saying it was noncriminal, the California Supreme Court saying it, and they rewrote my questions before the court and then ruled on their representation.
The California Judicial Council, in its 2002 annual report that 68.5% (4.2mil) of all court filings for that period were traffic infractions. If you crunch the numbers of the most modest traffic fine for the total of cases, @ 25.00 and the 4.2 mil. that's a whopping $400+mil. alone. This doesn't account for the insurance cases, license issues, DUI's, blah, blah, blah. The numbers are staggering.
Taking that into consideration it's not hard to comprehend why the cash cow is going to be producing as long as people stay willing to pay than fight, as well as not stand as a group. It's also not hard to comprehend the minor skirmishes we "win" (sic). For every 1 or 2 of us there are MILLIONS that just find it easier to pay and put it behind them.
Such is the nature of the beast.