If you proceed from an assumption that the LEO knows the statutes (which - since they write tickets and arrest for such, they should), then the LEO should know that the obscured sticker is not a violation.
Thus:
1.) That was not sufficient cause to pull over the car 2.) He has falsified official documents, by stating that this was his justification, as it is just as valid a justification as "that car was red". 3.) It indicates a clear intent to simply fish for evidence of unrelated crimes, as opposed to enforce evident violations/crimes.
1.) The person responsible for their own actions 2.) The person or persons responsible for not adequately vetting the people who carry around badges and guns
If you get out with your phone on your person, they'll be able to put their hands on it as they search YOU, and then commit all sorts of violations on the data contained on that as well.
When the bad apples start getting arrested by the good apples, I believe they're just "A couple bad apples".
But the volume of complaints these days tends to point towards "all these apples taste like ass, but there's occasionally a couple apples that are good and tasty in the bushel", but they're just vastly outnumbered by the bad ones.
Even the infrastructure is not a natural monopoly.
You're ignoring the point that there have been NUMEROUS people trying to compete against existing installed-plant -- with their own outside-plant -- and the legal system has been used to hinder their ability to do so.
If it was a natural monopoly, nobody else would want to do that. But there's plenty of people trying to do so.
Calling ISPs a "natural monopoly" is revisionist history. ISPs are *not* a natural monopoly, they are a statutory monopoly.
- The telcos do their damnedest to ensure that the state PUC/PSC doesn't allow anyone else to bring telco-style lines out to customers - The cable companies do their damnedest to ensure that the local municipalities franchise-authorities continue to renew their monopoly agreements every six years or so.
If Google Fiber, Sonic.net, and Community Fiber Networks are showing anything, it's that there is NOT some fictitious "natural monopoly".
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO COMPETE AND BEING LIMITED IN THEIR ABILITY TO DO SO BY THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
Go back and re-read that sentence, because it's important.
It will certainly take a period of "regulated competition" (competitive-wholesale-access, etc.) to undo decades of statutory monopoly, but *that* is where attention needs to be focused.
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It should matter.
If you proceed from an assumption that the LEO knows the statutes (which - since they write tickets and arrest for such, they should), then the LEO should know that the obscured sticker is not a violation.
Thus:
1.) That was not sufficient cause to pull over the car
2.) He has falsified official documents, by stating that this was his justification, as it is just as valid a justification as "that car was red".
3.) It indicates a clear intent to simply fish for evidence of unrelated crimes, as opposed to enforce evident violations/crimes.
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In this case his license plate was partially obscured,
Except that's not the case. The sticker on his plate was obscured, but that is NOT a violation, actually, according to the original post.
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There's two levels of blame:
1.) The person responsible for their own actions
2.) The person or persons responsible for not adequately vetting the people who carry around badges and guns
#1 is the officer. #2 is the taxpayers.
Both of them have culpability.
Re: Good lesson
If you get out with your phone on your person, they'll be able to put their hands on it as they search YOU, and then commit all sorts of violations on the data contained on that as well.
Re: General corruption?
When the bad apples start getting arrested by the good apples, I believe they're just "A couple bad apples".
But the volume of complaints these days tends to point towards "all these apples taste like ass, but there's occasionally a couple apples that are good and tasty in the bushel", but they're just vastly outnumbered by the bad ones.
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Even the infrastructure is not a natural monopoly.
You're ignoring the point that there have been NUMEROUS people trying to compete against existing installed-plant -- with their own outside-plant -- and the legal system has been used to hinder their ability to do so.
If it was a natural monopoly, nobody else would want to do that. But there's plenty of people trying to do so.
Monopolies
Calling ISPs a "natural monopoly" is revisionist history. ISPs are *not* a natural monopoly, they are a statutory monopoly.
- The telcos do their damnedest to ensure that the state PUC/PSC doesn't allow anyone else to bring telco-style lines out to customers
- The cable companies do their damnedest to ensure that the local municipalities franchise-authorities continue to renew their monopoly agreements every six years or so.
If Google Fiber, Sonic.net, and Community Fiber Networks are showing anything, it's that there is NOT some fictitious "natural monopoly".
PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO COMPETE AND BEING LIMITED IN THEIR ABILITY TO DO SO BY THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
Go back and re-read that sentence, because it's important.
It will certainly take a period of "regulated competition" (competitive-wholesale-access, etc.) to undo decades of statutory monopoly, but *that* is where attention needs to be focused.