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Clayton:
So, if the purpose of the police is to get people to slow down, shouldn't they be holding up the sign warning that there's a speed trap ahead?

Ah, but we all know getting people to slow down isn't the reason for the speed trap, now don't we? (That link was actually the most viewed Mises Daily on the site for a while. Might still be.)

I went with a friend to traffic court a few weeks ago, she got snapped going around a right-hand turn on a red by one of those red-light cameras. The whole thing is such a charade. [...] What's most hilarious to me is that everyone misses the obvious fact that the whole thing is a scam just because there's a judge and a "police officer" there. Don't they ever stop to think that the judge and the police officer both work for the same municipality?? Isn't that an obvious conflict-of-interest?

Stossel has been reporting on this for years. Help spred it around:

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John James — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:39:17 GMT

Wheylous:
I thought cults often try to dig up some old history...

Yeah that didn't make sense to me either. For a split second I thought it might have been satire. The title says "how not to be a cultist", and then the first few bullets all talk about how to make sure people are aware your ideas come from other people. The first sentence literally says to make sure people know "your project is part of a larger and much older tradition". And then it goes on to say you should tell people “I learned from these people, and maybe you will find value in them as well”.

That kind of sounds exactly like a cultist to me. Glad I wasn't the only one who found it to sound ironic.

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gotlucky — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:26:49 GMT

@Clayton

A lot of the stories that I post I get from the Drudge Report. So if it makes you feel any better, it's very likely that a lot of these are getting national attention, as Drudge is very on top of what's news for most people. So it may be very likely that people are waking up to this nonsense, however slowly it may seem.

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Gero — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:24:32 GMT

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Clayton — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:16:21 GMT

So, if the purpose of the police is to get people to slow down, shouldn't they be holding up the sign warning that there's a speed trap ahead? I went with a friend to traffic court a few weeks ago, she got snapped going around a right-hand turn on a red by one of those red-light cameras. The whole thing is such a charade. There's the "police officer" (who never leaves her air-conditioned office to "patrol") who testifies that she "reviewed the video footage" and "witnessed a violation of the traffic laws", and then they present the high-definition video footage. The judge asks "do you have anything to say for yourself"? If you respond no, he says he'll help you out by knocking 10% off the fine. If you try to offer an explanation, he either agrees that it's a close call but you still technically violated the law (so he has no choice but to fine you) or he gives you a stern lecture about taking responsibility for your driving habits, etc. In 100% of cases I saw ahead of my friend's, 100% "conviction" rate.

What's most hilarious to me is that everyone misses the obvious fact that the whole thing is a scam just because there's a judge and a "police officer" there. Don't they ever stop to think that the judge and the police officer both work for the same municipality?? Isn't that an obvious conflict-of-interest?

Argh!

Clayton -

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Wheylous — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:16:19 GMT

I thought cults often try to dig up some old history...

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gotlucky — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:43:10 GMT

Pedestrian thrown in jail for 12 hours for holding up sign warning drivers about police speed trap

Though this is a UK paper, this happened in Houston, Tx. Anyway, highlight from the article:

She ended up being charged with misdemeanor 'walking in the road where a sidewalk is present,' through she was in jail 12 hours before she was able to bail out.

Miss Plummer said she wasn't obstructing justice, and she wasn't in the roadway, either -- she was on the sidwalk.

'He couldn't take me to jail for holding up this sign or he would have. So all he could do was make up something fake about it,' she said.

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John James — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:23:48 GMT

He's useful for some things.

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