Virginia Police State issues 6996 traffic tickets in 2 days - to raise $$

[abduLMaria]

http://www.businessinsider.com/virginia-hands-out-6996-traffic-tickets-in-one-weekend-in-an-effort-to-raise-revenue-for-the-state-government-2010-3

"Virginia Hands Out 6996 Traffic Tickets In One Weekend In An Effort To Raise Revenue For The State Government"

"In the old days, police officers wrote traffic tickers
primarily to keep people safe and to prevent citizens from breaking the traffic laws.

But in the new Amerika, all of that has changed.  Now traffic tickets are primarily viewed as a revenue raising tool for state and local governments.  For example, a federally funded ticketing blitz in the state of Virginia resulted in a total of 6996 traffic tickets being handed out this past weekend.  This most recent ticketing blitz is part of a campaign code-named "Operation Air, Land & Speed".  Last Saturday and Sunday state troopers were ordered to absolutely saturate Interstate 95 and Interstate 81 and to issue as many traffic tickets as humanly possible during those two days.  Why?  Well, it turns out that the state of Virginia has a 2.2 billion dollar budget deficit that they are trying to deal with, and so they need to find some quick sources of cash.

You see, state and local governments all over the nation are massively jacking up traffic fines and are starting to write a lot more tickets in an attempt to "enhance" their streams of revenue.

In other words, state and local governments across the U.S. are broke and so they need some suckers to prey on.

Not that it was ever a good idea to break the traffic laws.  But now even a minor violation can put a massive hole in your wallet.  For instance, driving as little as 15 miles an hour over the speed limit in Virginia can get you a reckless driving charge that can carry a fine of up to $2500."


Wow.  It's like those stories I read when I was a kid ... and there was a troll under the bridge ... and the troll stole your lunch money.

But now it's cops hiding behind the bridge.  And they steal a lot more than your lunch money.

Coincidentally, Virginia just passed a law pro-actively overturning Obama-care.  For about 4 hours, I was favorably impressed with Virginia.

[Tomas O'Crohan]

The bright side however is that the extortion has become so overt that even the hopelessly clueless are beginning to see that we have no choice but to overturn this criminal organization that masquerades as "government."