Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism: they will reject democracy.

• David Frum, 2018

This was so prescient, it’s amazing. To be a Republican is to be a traitor.

MA. Tickets have “I’d like to pay” or “I’d like a hearing”. No mention of guilt.

Hearings are civil, not criminal, and you represent yourself in front of a magistrate (baby judge). If you tried to represent yourself in a criminal case, the judge would give you a very hard time about that choice. Either way, you don’t call witnesses, there’s no cross examination, and no discovery.

I don’t get where people are going full Law&Order, demanding to see their accuser.

The (Australian) law actually says you can’t have your phone out (face up/down doesn’t matter). And I think the law is consistent with other common sense traffic safety:

• You can’t have an open beer bottle within reach
• You can’t have a firearm within reach

Phone use has been shown to be equivalent (or in some cases, far worse) to driving over the BAC limit.

Or more concisely: the government should never contract out law enforcement to private companies.

Have you ever fought a traffic ticket? You’re not on trial. You’re not pleading guilty/not-guilty. It’s an administrative/civil thing.

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