Starting this Labor Day weekend, help us make our roads safer by pleading Not Guilty on every citation!
02/09/09 15:45
Win every traffic ticket! Fight for your rights while you still have some.
Portland, OR (eMediaWorld) September 2, 2009 - This September, fight for your rights and protect the United States Constitution by pleading "not guilty" to traffic violations.
Each year, thousands of lives are lost to poorly designed and constructed roads. AAA estimated in a 2003 study, 5,000 lives could be saved every year. The American Road and Transportation Builders Association estimated more than 20,000 lives a year could be saved simply by repairing our roadways. So why haven't we acted? Simple: our transportation policies have become focused on essentially one outcome - revenue generation.
The National Speed Limit enacted by Congress in 1974 gave birth to an industrial complex monster that has grown exponentially. Though the law was repealed in 1995, the damage was done. More than 50 million citations are already written each year to feed this monster's progeny. With Government budgets out of control, and tax revenues in decline, they have to search for new feedstock, but it only feeds on We the People.
New transportation Czar Ray LaHood, with the support of the Governor's Highway Safety Association, has been diligently coordinating the greatest expansion of police powers in American history to ensure this revenue stream not only stays in place, but grows. While the national debate rages on about healthcare, cap and trade, the economy and two foreign wars, LaHood and his minions operate in the shadows without scrutiny.
"As if the USDOT's disregard for the rule of law and our safety wasn't bad enough," says Chad Dornsife, Executive Director of the Best Highway Safety Practices Institute (BHSPI) "LaHood's Trojan horse "Distracted Driving Safety Summit" this month is like having advance notice of 911, but this time it's a government plot to subvert the civil liberties of the United States citizens."
In an effort to weed out this blatant bastardization of the Constitution, BHSPI looked for examples of how other governments are working to solve their own abuses of power and corruption issues as they relate to transportation policy. An inventive solution in Mexico caught our attention.
Mexico's public sector corruption is legendary. In an effort to curtail institutionalized police corruption, Avila Villegas' first official act as mayor of Ecatepec, a city of 2.5 million people just north of Mexico City, was to abolish parking and traffic fines.
The mayor's theory was that if police officers can't threaten drivers with tickets, they can't shake them down. "We are renewing and revolutionizing our city," he said. "People will always speed. They will always park illegally. But this way they won't have to pay bribes."
In the States, the corruption problem isn't due to rogue police officers; it's our institutions, traffic laws, and the methods used to exercise police powers thereof. The practices have become categorically unconstitutional, which by definition means they can be successfully challenged in a court of law.
For this reason, we issue this call to action to fight for your rights and your freedom.
If LaHood and co. succeed in their unchallenged efforts, and if Congress enacts its ALERT Act, police pretext traffic stops will become a way of life – an expansion of police state profiling and warrantless searches which are already embedded in new federal model practices for "Community Policing". Worse, there will be no viable defense because these will be "per se" laws that do not require an unsafe act to sustain probable cause or a conviction, only an allegation or suspicion of one.
Sound farfetched? Consider this: more than 50 million citations a year are still being written for otherwise safe driving. During the first five months of Arizona's new traffic "safety" program, more than 700,000 automated citations were issued to motorists safely traveling within the normal flow of traffic.
Time is running out. We must act now while the Constitution still protects us. The Constitution and Congress' intent requires our traffic control laws and the exercise of police powers thereof to be fact based, uniform in both application and expectation, be promulgated with deference to our inalienable Constitutional rights, including due process and equal protection on all roadways, bike paths and pedestrian facilities open to the public within the U.S. and its territories.
The only way to end this tyrannical feeding frenzy is knowledge and action. Call Congress, stop the Trojan horse distracted driving pretext laws TODAY, learn your constitutional rights and exercise them. Our liberty and justice exist only if we fight for them. Have everyone you know plead not guilty; help them if they need it! If only a small percentage of the 50 million or more unconstitutional citations were contested, this house of cards would collapse.
Join us in declaring September as the first 'We the People Plead Not Guilty" month, and every month thereafter do the same. In doing so, we will effect change and reclaim our rights - and our country. There are judges who respect the rule of law. With our voices, they will one at a time turn this tide of tyranny.
Defending our civil liberties has never been more urgent," says Dornsife. "If we fail to challenge our elected representatives now, we risk losing our rights in perpetuity."
Knowledge is power, click here ( http://www.MotoristsRights.com ) to learn more.
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New transportation Czar Ray LaHood, with the support of the Governor's Highway Safety Association, has been diligently coordinating the greatest expansion of police powers in American history to ensure this revenue stream not only stays in place, but grows. While the national debate rages on about healthcare, cap and trade, the economy and two foreign wars, LaHood and his minions operate in the shadows without scrutiny.
"As if the USDOT's disregard for the rule of law and our safety wasn't bad enough," says Chad Dornsife, Executive Director of the Best Highway Safety Practices Institute (BHSPI) "LaHood's Trojan horse "Distracted Driving Safety Summit" this month is like having advance notice of 911, but this time it's a government plot to subvert the civil liberties of the United States citizens."
In an effort to weed out this blatant bastardization of the Constitution, BHSPI looked for examples of how other governments are working to solve their own abuses of power and corruption issues as they relate to transportation policy. An inventive solution in Mexico caught our attention.
Mexico's public sector corruption is legendary. In an effort to curtail institutionalized police corruption, Avila Villegas' first official act as mayor of Ecatepec, a city of 2.5 million people just north of Mexico City, was to abolish parking and traffic fines.
The mayor's theory was that if police officers can't threaten drivers with tickets, they can't shake them down. "We are renewing and revolutionizing our city," he said. "People will always speed. They will always park illegally. But this way they won't have to pay bribes."
In the States, the corruption problem isn't due to rogue police officers; it's our institutions, traffic laws, and the methods used to exercise police powers thereof. The practices have become categorically unconstitutional, which by definition means they can be successfully challenged in a court of law.
For this reason, we issue this call to action to fight for your rights and your freedom.
If LaHood and co. succeed in their unchallenged efforts, and if Congress enacts its ALERT Act, police pretext traffic stops will become a way of life – an expansion of police state profiling and warrantless searches which are already embedded in new federal model practices for "Community Policing". Worse, there will be no viable defense because these will be "per se" laws that do not require an unsafe act to sustain probable cause or a conviction, only an allegation or suspicion of one.
Sound farfetched? Consider this: more than 50 million citations a year are still being written for otherwise safe driving. During the first five months of Arizona's new traffic "safety" program, more than 700,000 automated citations were issued to motorists safely traveling within the normal flow of traffic.
Time is running out. We must act now while the Constitution still protects us. The Constitution and Congress' intent requires our traffic control laws and the exercise of police powers thereof to be fact based, uniform in both application and expectation, be promulgated with deference to our inalienable Constitutional rights, including due process and equal protection on all roadways, bike paths and pedestrian facilities open to the public within the U.S. and its territories.
The only way to end this tyrannical feeding frenzy is knowledge and action. Call Congress, stop the Trojan horse distracted driving pretext laws TODAY, learn your constitutional rights and exercise them. Our liberty and justice exist only if we fight for them. Have everyone you know plead not guilty; help them if they need it! If only a small percentage of the 50 million or more unconstitutional citations were contested, this house of cards would collapse.
Join us in declaring September as the first 'We the People Plead Not Guilty" month, and every month thereafter do the same. In doing so, we will effect change and reclaim our rights - and our country. There are judges who respect the rule of law. With our voices, they will one at a time turn this tide of tyranny.
Defending our civil liberties has never been more urgent," says Dornsife. "If we fail to challenge our elected representatives now, we risk losing our rights in perpetuity."
Knowledge is power, click here ( http://www.MotoristsRights.com ) to learn more.
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