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On Wed, 04 May 2005 04:39:44 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote: "Dave Hall" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 03 May 2005 13:50:49 GMT, "Landshark" wrote: "Dave Hall" wrote in message ... On Tue, 03 May 2005 01:53:26 -0700, Frank Gilliland wrote: While they may not specifically say it this way, the fact that you got a ticket, is evidence of guilt, and you have to try your best to prove that you're not guilty. The word of one cop is enough, in most cases, to render a "guilty" verdict, unless you're damn lucky and can somehow "prove" your innocence Um Dave, when the officer hands the book to you and says "sign here" he always says: " This is not an admission of guilt, but a promissory to appear in court", so how does your statement apply? In Pa, you sign to acknowledge receipt of the citation. You then have the choice to either plead guilty and remit the amount of the fine to the address included. Or, you can plead "not guilty" and take your chances fighting in court. But unless you have some means of actually proving your innocence beyond that of playing he said- he said with a cop, you pretty much have the cards stacked against you. Oh, and you will be assessed court costs in addition to your fine if found guilty. Same here. Yes, if you don't do your homework and submit the evidence correctly, you are at the mercy of the court. Of course if your guilty, why would you be there? If not, do your homework, present a good case with evidence & witness's and you will be found innocent. No argument. But finding those witnesses and the evidence is the normally the problem. Too often all you have is your own account of the altercation, and that is not enough to overturn the professional account of a trained police officer, unless you get real lucky. If you didn't do anything wrong, you have the RIGHT to appear in court, present your evidence to the JUDGE and let him make the decision, not a bunch of people sitting around a table, drinking coffee, eating donuts and then saying....."um, this guy said SH*T, let's fine him..........$25,000.00, yeah, that's a good amount" Whether or not you did something wrong or not may be open to subjective interpretation. Most cops would not bother to write someone a ticket for not coming completely to a stop and waiting the required 3 seconds before proceeding at a stop sign. Why not? Because there is a difference between the letter of the law and the intent of the law. I know very few people who come to a complete stop and count to 3 before proceeding. Most of the cops I know will not cite someone if they make the effort to stop, even if the wheel may still be moving slightly. And that's the whole point. The point where a so-called "California stop" is tolerated is often up to the opinion of the cop. if they didn't wait, they could get the ticket. You have "unnamed" cops that are friends, do they tell you that they only ticket people that they see, 100% do something wrong? If they say yes, they are probably lying. I'm not sure exactly what you are asking here. Are you asking me if I know of cases where the cops I know write tickets for infractions which are illegitimate? If that's the case, than no, I don't know of any. Then again, if they did, I'm sure they wouldn't tell me that. Although one of my friends is retired now, so his risk exposure is more limited now. But the point between what's an acceptable stop and one that's not, is a subjective gray area, and not one that you will usually win. That's some of my point. If he really didn't see you not stop, he's guessing. Well, yea, I would think so. But if he didn't actually see you do it, then why chase you down and ticket you in the first place? And even if he did guess, it's still your word against his in court. How do you PROVE that you complied fully with the law? If so, then you have your witness's, do your homework and present it accordingly. What witnesses? You are driving alone in the car, and the only people who can testify to what happened are you and the cop. I was sighted once for that offence, there was no way he could have seen me stop, let alone not stop. I took my pictures, measurements and showed in court that there was no way that the officer could have seen me stop, let alone run the stop sign from the position he said he was in. I won, and I was only 18 years old then. Then the cop did a poor job of presenting his case, and you got off on a technicality. Your whole defense hinged on the cop's ability to see you based on their location. Something they are not required to tell you at the time they give the ticket. But congrats anyway. You managed to successfully prove your innocence. My whole point in the first place. Had you not been able to prove your innocence, the citation would have stood. Hence my original claim that you are presumed guilty and must prove your innocence in these cases. I was also once cited for a stop sign violation. In my case, I was in an unfamiliar area, and the stop sign was not in an expected place and somewhat hidden and I blew right through it unconsciously. I drove quite a few blocks before I even noticed the cop behind me. I had no idea where he was when he "saw" me, and he didn't tell me. When he asked me if I knew I had run the stop sign, my response was "What stop sign?". He had me dead to rights and I paid the fine. But even if I had seen the stop sign and stopped at it, I would not have known where he was to mount the sort of defense that you did had he chosen to cite me for an arguably "poor" stop. In retrospect, when a cop stakes out a residential area like that, it's usually in response to neighborhood complaints. Evidently a lot of people blow through that particular stop sign. Which likely is a result of its poor placement. Something they should look into. Most traffic law issues are not always black and white. Yes, if you actually feel that you were unfairly targeted, you might be tempted to fight. But if you are still guilty of violating the letter of the law, if not the intent, you might find it a tough battle. Maybe, but if your speedo is off, you can go to court, show that it was off and also show that it was repaired, most of the time the judge will dismiss the case. Probably. Again, that's why in Pa, they usually give such a wide tolerance before citing people. It's a lot harder to argue accuracy issues when you're 15 MPH or more over. On the other hand, if you **** off a cop and he pulls you over and "invents" a few charges to stick you with, you will still have a hard time proving that you did not commit them unless, of course, the cop in question has a history of abusing his power in such a way. Maybe again. But if you have someone with you, that type of stuff is less likely to happen (witness factor) LESS likely. But remember the court usually takes the personal bias of a passenger into consideration. Is this fair? No. But is it a fact of life? Certainly. You have a better chance of beating a ticket if your inocent than an FCC fine, at least you appear before a Judge and you can request a jury trial, try to do that with a FCC NAL. You can fight an NAL as well. In most cases the FCC gives fair warning before handing out the NAL. Warnings are not NAL, so there is nothing to fight. Yes, but they should give you fair warning that your on the FCC's radar, and plan accordingly. If you heed the warning, in most cases that will be the end of it. I haven't read any accounts of people popped by the FCC who weren't guilty of the offense charged. It doesn't matter Dave, you can't fight a NAL, you either pay it or have a lein on your property or wages garnished. Not if you can prove that the fine is a financial burden. In many cases, the fine will be lowered. In most cases, their "defense" consists of crying poor, or somehow trying to justify their actions. Some of the excuses given are quite laughable. Same as a real court. Yes. Why play word games? The end result is the same. The accuser has to prove his innocence, by discrediting the evidence against him. The cop is not required to demonstrate 6 different ways from Sunday how the accuser is guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". He only has to show up and testify that the accuser ran such and such red light, and it's his word against the accuser's. So who does the court tend to believe? How is this a "presumption of innocence"? What word games? The officer presents his evidence, then you have your turn, do you think that just because he's a police officer he's always right? No, he's not always right, but he's more credible in the eyes of the court than Joe Average Citizen. Why? He's a person just like anyone else. His credibility rides on what he presents and how he does it, just like you. A cop is a professional law enforcement officer, trained in the law, and in observational skills. For that reason alone, you have to be better able to present your case. All things being equal, the cop is given more credibility by virtue of his job. Cops are viewed with a certain amount of public trust. If it comes down to a battle of testimony between you and the cop, the court will side with the cop in most cases. Again, if you did something wrong, why waste the time of the courts, Some people can't admit that they did something wrong, or feel that they were somehow "singled out" over everyone else. but if you are innocent and present your case in a legit way, you will probably get off. Yes, but the burden is on you to prove it so. Which is contrary to the idea of "Innocent until proven guilty". If you present the correct type of evidence, witness's, you will be found innocent. Tell me, just how great are your chances of having an impartial witness around when you need them, or having some other form of concrete exculpatory evidence? I made a right hand turn onto another street, I proceeded into the right side of the lane partially into the bike lane (legal if with-in a certain distance of the intersection). Cop saw it and gave me a ticket for passing on the right. Who did you pass? I showed with both video, pictures and measurements, after the officer said I passed on the right some 1000 to 1300' before the intersection. That being said I would have had to pass him on the right before the previous light (I had turned onto the road in front of him, so how did I pass him?) I was found innocent via US mail and the judge enclosed a note saying that I had come to the court very well prepared with my evidence in proper sequence. I guess you had to be there. I don't see how a video dramatization after the fact absolves you of what the cop claimed you did. You are talking how things should be in theory. I'm talking about how they are in reality. In an ideal world, all innocent people would never be accused or wrongly convicted of a crime. The real world paints an entirely different picture. I'm not saying it's right. I'm just acknowledging that it happens. Sorry, in the real world I'll bet you more people that do the right thing while in court get off more than you think. I don't know many people who would go to all the trouble that you did to "prove" your case. Most just appear and "plead" their case verbally. Again, that's why the speed law here has a high threshold, because the court historically will throw out speed infractions tickets which are within the realm of reasonable accuracy disputes. I'm waiting until the FCC starts regulating the internet. It's coming. That's a very sad statement Dave, if you can't regulate what you hear and watch, you have to have the governmet do it for you. A clear case.......... Lack of self control. It's an unfortunate truth that there are some people out there that can't exercise self control and, by their lack of respect for others, pollute the public venues with inappropriate behavior. If you don't like Stern, change the channel, if you don't like Queer eye for the straight guy, don't watch it, but don't ask the government to stand in and say " this is bad, people don't want to watch this, take it off the air. You would have culture shock if you ever get over to Europe. A perfect example of why I don't want us going down that path. The fundamental problem is one of lack of respect. Many people feel that their right to express themselves supersedes their responsibility to respect the rights and feelings of others. Too often those people place the burden of responsibility to other people to clean up after, or avoid their social infractions. The whole "if you don't like it, turn it off (or leave)" mentality. I find that mentality to be extremely selfish, and inconsiderate. Barring vigilante justice, government intervention is often the only sensible alternative. So when the public is tired of seeing televangelist all day and night, politicians are tired of it, it's ok to bar them from TV? If they violate a specific indecency law, I would say that they're fair game. Because you don't have the common sense to turn it off or change channels? Sometimes, it's too late. Case in point, the whole Janet Jackson escapade. People have an expectation for a certain level of programming and are unexpectedly "shocked" by something that is not within that expectation. At the very least, the government should impose strict guidelines for programmers. If you want "racy" programming, then there should be specific channels for it, and there needs to be all sorts of warnings associated with it that warn people ahead of time what they will be subjected to. So-called "family rated" channels would not be allowed to carry anything in the least bit sexually or violently explicit. Then at least people might have some choice as to what they can see and not see. With the advent of digital TV and the ability to cram 10 or more MPEG compressed services (at 256 QAM) into the same space as one analog TV channel, bandwidth is not a problem. Regulation does not mean an outright ban. That's messed up, you had better hope that the country never gets to that stage. I'd rather hope that the human race rediscovers the concepts of morality, and both personal and civic responsibility. Ironically, I tend to be a "minimal governmental intrusion" advocate. But as more and more people adopt an "in your face" attitude with respect to their perceived rights, I start to understand the need for stricter controls. Homosexuality is a disorder of the brain. Not much different than schizophrenia, bipolar, or a host of other disorders. We should be looking for ways to treat and correct it, not for reasons to excuse it. LOL!!!! Dr. Sigmund Hall is in the office..... Too funny You disagree? You obviously haven't read the studies on the subject. Nor do I care too, it's not anything that I'm concerned about. Why not? I am interested in any aspect of society that has the potential to affect me. A marriage is a symbolic ritual of bonding that occurs between biologically compatible couples. There can be no natural procreation in a homosexual union. So yes, those values ARE diminished. Symbolic Yes. I'm not sure what you mean by "biologically compatible" Do you mean, if your gay, you can't be a compatible couple? You cannot procreate, which is the whole point of marriage and family. Hummm, maybe, but it's not the only reason for marriage. No, but that was the original intent. Don't get me wrong Dave, I agree with you on "Gay marriage", I think your words are wrong though. In what way? I think they can have what ever type of saying they want, but marriage is and has always been between a man & a woman, not a man & man or woman & woman. I agree with this, so how is this wrong? BTW, I support the idea of a "civil union" for gay people for the purpose of securing secular benefits (and liabilities) that society normally offers to married couples. I just don't want it called "marriage". I believe that if the gay community would back off from their belligerent insistence on "gay marriage" and concentrate instead on creating civil unions, they'd have far less opposition. Too much stuff to comment on here Dave, you have got way to much time on your hands, I for one have to get to work, see yaa. I'm already here. I'm on lunch right now. My day is 2/3rds over. This small distraction is hardly a dent in my work day. Well I have bigger things to do than this group, so time is more precious to me. My boss would probably agree with you. But my workload ebbs and flows. A week or so ago, I was very busy, and I couldn't spend much time here. Next week looks to be a busy one too. I play things by ear..... Dave "Sandbagger" http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj |
On 3 May 2005 23:24:29 -0700, "A PROUD FREEBANDER"
wrote: JEEEEZZZZZZ ENOUGH OF THIS GARBAGE. Lets get back to CB'in and Freebanding. QSL? insert roger beep and\or noise toy here Yea really. We wouldn't want to give the impression that radio people have areas of interest which go beyond CB radio...... Dave "Sandbagger" |
On Tue, 03 May 2005 23:24:18 -0700, Frank Gilliland
wrote: On Tue, 03 May 2005 09:00:00 -0400, Dave Hall wrote in : snip The difference between you and I is only a matter of degree. When you make relative value judgements, this is the danger you run into. When you apply logic in the justification for allowing certain behaviors, the same logic can be applied to a successive list of increasingly abhorrent behaviors and practices. It comes down to what you are willing to tolerate. Once you start down that slippery slope, there's no turning back, without abandoning your logic and adopting some sort of "bigotry". That "degree of morality" is established by society, not you, and not any religious activist group. The overwhelming majority of people (99%) feel that murder, sex crimes, etc are 'immoral'. But there isn't much of a majority condemning homosexuality. -That's- how you make a "relative value judgment". Based on what statistics? snip If you lead a monogamous lifestyle and do not engage in dangerous recreational habits, your chances of contracting AIDS is minuscule. HIV doesn't care if you are gay or straight. No, but how you get it most definitely depends on how sexually promiscuous you are. And maybe you missed the boat on this one too, but a lot of people got the disease from blood transfusions. If you read the link I provided, you'd find that the percentage of those people are less than 2%. So if you are going to suggest that AIDS is a disease that is contracted only by evil people then you are even more ignorant than you have so far demonstrated. If you are suggesting that sexual promiscuity and gender orientation have no part in it, then you are more ignorant that you are accusing me of. If you want to drastically slow down the spread of AIDS, the answer is quite simple. Abstain from sex. Science therefore vindicated the gay community. But it also exposed people to their own misperceptions about homosexuality. Apparently you weren't paying attention. I was paying attention. To the facts. There are many who believe that AIDS is the work of God, sent to punish those who engage in "unworthy" behavior. It's easy for those who have little faith in a supreme being to deny this possibility. But it's interesting in where the highest percentages of HIV cases are, and what activities place people at the most risk. Coincidence? I was wrong about you, Dave. I thought you were intelligent but a little misguided. Now I see that you are a certifiable holy-roller racist whacko. I am far from a holy roller, but I also cannot deny both the timing and the groups of people who have had the most affect from this disease. I'm not one who believes in random coincidences, so I am forced to consider the possibility that this could be deliberate. It's called having an open mind. Something you have demonstrated that you do not have by discarding it and covering it by an ad-hominem attack at me. BTW, how is this "racist"? snip Well, kick back and pop a brew, Dave, because this is America, A nation founded by Christian people based on Christian doctrine, even if the 1st amendment decries that there is no "official" state sponsored religion. Not just the First Amendment, Dave. The concept is reflected in the main body of the Constitution; "...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States," a clause which was unanimously adopted by the Constitutional Convention. Yet the democrats are using this exact criteria to DENY appointees to the court. In their minds, a strong belief in faith should be regarded as a reason to disqualify someone from serving in public office. This country was founded on the principle of religious freedom (as well as other important principles). After being forced by England to practice only one religion (the religion of the state), the new Americans wanted people to have the freedom to practice religion according to their belief, be it Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Bhuddism, Taoism, Monoanimism..... or even no religion at all. The USA is not, nor has it ever been, a Christian state. Not "officially", but our whole government is littered with Christian references. The ten commandments in judicial buildings. The swearing on the Bible, and others. Things that have been here for many years, yet liberals are now fighting to have removed. and you have the right to practice your religion as you see fit -- just let the rest of us do the same. As long as what you do doesn't infringe on what I do or diminish the values that this country was originally founded on. Gay marriage doesn't change your legal rights and responsibilities. It doesn't change your tax filing status. It doesn't give your kids birth defects. It doesn't invalidate your will. It doesn't change your life insurance policy premiums, or any other bills you pay. Actually it may. If insurance is forced to extend benefits to same sex partners, the increased the pool of insured, which will mean that everyone's rates will ultimately increase to cover it. It doesn't change the color of your house, the mileage of your car, or how fast the weeds grow in your garden. It doesn't affect you in any way except the way you feel. It tarnishes the sanctity of marriage. If you are someone who does not believe strongly in anything, then nothing can affect you. Who was it that said that "those who will not stand for anything, stand for nothing"? And -you- are responsible for the way you feel, not -anybody- else. There is nothing in the Constitution that dictates how a person should feel. If gay marriage weakens the value of your marriage, it does so only because you let it, and that's nobody's fault but your own. It diminishes the value of the whole institution. It's not much different in principle than earning a college degree. If they change the requirements for a college degree to only needing 2 years of course study, then it diminishes the value of that degree for those who put in their 4 years. If your bigoted brain had any intelligence you would realize that gay marriage would -strengthen- the value of your marriage because it provides a contrast to your own definition of the union. How does diluting an institution strengthen it? But that's not the case. You just hate homosexuals. It's as simple as that, isn't it, Dave? It's easy for people like you to vilify and demonize any opposing views as hate. That's an overly simplistic justification and usually a sign of someone who's afraid to take on the topic and discuss it to the level that's needed. A common tactic employed by liberals. Are you SURE you're not a liberal Frank? I don't "hate" anyone Frank. But I do acknowledge that homosexuals are biologically and mentally anomalous. It's not "normal" behavior no matter how much anyone wishes to sugar coat it. I also resent efforts to "normalize" obvious abnormal behavior rather than trying harder to correct it. snip ..... Or do you support the position of right-wing conservative Christians who say (by their actions) that any participation of fags in America's free-market economy should be supressed? Sometimes politics is at odds with economic considerations. Sometimes you have to cut off your own nose to make a much larger point. That's called "principle" A simple 'yes' would have sufficed. But would have been incorrect. snip The "right" choice is any choice that isn't unconstitutional. The constitution is relative as well. It was framed by Christian people with their religious inspired morality contained within its wording. You have obviously never read it. I have. Many times. Maybe you should. Here it is: http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html If you choose to reject science and logic, that's your business. Quite contrary. Logic supports the existence of a creator or, more generally, the concept of intelligent design. Our whole ecosystem, the intricate specialization of the various functions of our bodies and other aspects of nature are far too complex to have occurred and evolved at random. There is simply not enough order in chaos for this to happen. I see you slept through history -and- science. No, actually those were my strongest subjects. I had to explain to my 4th grade teacher how nuclear fission worked. I have also studied the intricacies of our planet and its ecosystem. It is far too complex to have evolved totally randomly. If I'm wrong then you can rest assured that I'll pay for my indiscretions -- but that's -my- business, not your's. Yes, it is. But it's my business if you try to poison others by "immoral" thinking. And hence we have the classic "moral dilemma". No, it's -not- your business if I try to "poison" others by stating that I'm an atheist. You can state anything you want. But don't get mad if those who disagree with you, challenge you. You have just as much right to declare that you are a Christian (or whatever warped permutation of religion you have adopted to validate your "core beliefs"). And no group of Christians, no matter how large, has the right to impose it's version of morality on me. Nor do you have the right to denounce any display of religiously inspired morality. This is 21st Century America, not the dark ages or the Spanish Inquisition. But it -is- your business to abide by the Constitution the United States, which clearly states that religion has no place in this government. If that makes you feel bad, tuff ****. Learn to live with it or get out. I would highly recommend the latter. I just wish all those sore losers at the end of the 2004 election would make good on their threats to leave this country and join Canada. Then this country can return to more traditional values. These "Christians" really need to start practicing what they preach. Or at least how to live and let live. Not when abhorrent behavior is cancerous to their way of life. They have a right to fight for what they believe in, just as much as those who would throw traditional morality to the wind in support of the latest hedonistic pop-culture fad. Rock and roll is here to stay, Dave. Yep, you're one of those guys who believes that change is always good, and that new ideas are always better than old ones right? March like the rest of the lemming right off the cliff........ snip Once again you are confused, Dave. It was statutory law that initiated the Constitutional challenge. The statute was -overthrown- by the Supreme Court, not established. Exactly. But what right should a branch of government which is supposed to interpret and apply the law, have in making or overturning standing law? That is the job for the legislature. Oh dear god, you really don't have any clue about how the government works, do you? Three branches of government? Checks and balances? Seperataion of powers? But why should I be suprised -- you haven't even read the Constitution. I told you before. But you don't seem to know how government works. The legislative branch makes the laws. The executive branch enacts them. The judicial branch applies them. Those are your checks and balances. And case law is just as much 'law' as statutory law because of the system of 'checks and balances' -- to suggest that a law is something less because it is a "judicial ruling" is completely bogus. I call it "overstepping their bounds". No law that is made by the legislature should be struck down by a panel of judges without debate, which should include the legislature who passed the law in the first place. When I realize that people like you vote, it comes as no suprise that Bush was re-elected..... he has great appeal with the ignorant. Then you should have voted for him. No, strike that. You're not ignorant. You're worse. You think you know things, but what you know is twisted. It's clear that you never learned the basics of your own government. Because I don't agree with your warped view of it? Just like you never learned the basics of electronics. The problem is that you can't possibly make an informed decision about who to vote for if you don't even know the job description! I'm not the one who threw away my vote on a non-candidate. One who is the most socialist leaning of any of them. Yet you claim to support the constitution. You are a person of contradictions Frank. No wonder you can't understand what I'm telling you. Climb down off your morality horse Morality is the foundation of any successful government. You have yet to learn that. Dave "Sandbagger" |
Dave Hall (N3CVJ) wrote:
Most cops would not bother to write someone a ticket for not coming completely to a stop and waiting the required 3 seconds before proceeding at a stop sign. They will bust your ass here in the high tourist area for that exact offense. There are way too many bicyclists and pedestrians around here and the cops vehemently enforce what is commonly known as the "California Stop" or the "Rolling Stop" through a stop sign. |
Dave Hall (N3CVJ) wrote:
Quite contrary. Logic supports the existence of a creator or, more generally, the concept of intelligent design. Science is based on logic. Nowhere does science support your position. Our whole ecosystem, the intricate specialization of the various functions of our bodies and other aspects of nature are far too complex to have occurred and evolved at random. Now THAT is one hell of a subjective opinion. But keeping with that, who said it was random? Natural evolution and selection explains away any coincidental occurrences that you may mistake for "random". There is simply not enough order in chaos for this to happen. You are claiming this oxymoron (chaos in order) does not exist. I agree. Whiole Darwin's theory has yet to be proved because of a single missing link, it is the most widely accepted scholarly and scientific (IE: logic, logical) belief. |
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Dave Hall (N3CVJ) Jr. wrote:
(That "degree of morality" is established by society, not you, and not any religious activist group. The overwhelming majority of people (99%) feel that murder, sex crimes, etc are 'immoral'. But there isn't much of a majority condemning homosexuality. -That's- how you make a "relative value judgment".) Based on what statistics? No statistics..just votes making laws giving the queers equal rights. The fact that states are now permitting same sex unions is another example. Your current batch of thugs in Washington is also catering to the gays ever since there was found to be so many of them in the hiarchy of the current administration. |
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