Most people realize that government agents are above the laws they enforce on the rest us. If you don't believe that, you're probably a police officer.
On Thursday, my wife and I drove to Towson, Md., for an ultrasound appointment and I lost count of how many unmarked police cars flew past me on the beltway (sans lights and sirens), traveling well over 15 mph above the speed limit. Of course, I also saw a handful of motorists pulled over on the side of the road, likely for doing the very same thing.
Well, courtesy of Radley Balko, sometimes it's nice to see a cop get what's coming to him.
I should point out for the record that I’m not necessarily "anti-cop," at least in any absolute sense. I do, however, oppose any cop who tickets or arrests others for doing something he knows he can get away with himself, be it speeding, carrying a legal firearm, drinking and driving, what have you. Agents of the State can abuse their power and authority; private security contractors, on the other hand, must be accountable to their employers and genuinely concerned about actually protecting and serving them if they want to remain employed.
I left my post as a public school teacher after three and a half years primarily because I woke up and realized it's vastly immoral for the government to compel people to pay for the education of kids that aren't theirs and for services they may not even want or use, or to tax our property so heavily that many people essentially have no choice but to send their own kids to schools owned and operated by the State. I basically figured that if I wasn't part of the solution, I was part of the problem. Therefore, same goes for police officers who believe it's appropriate to enforce the many immoral restrictions the government imposes on the rest of us.
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