Re: The CHP is awesome
Sean, while I would agree with you that the CHP tend to dole out tickets with a robotic like efficiancy and courtesy, these mindless automatons also are willing to dole out citations for the sole purpose of revenue generation without so much as a thought if their state sponsered meddling is merited. I have recieved tickets for 65 in a government mandated 55 that used to be 70 and now is 70, all under the guise of public safety.
The CHP is notorious here in Nothern Kalifornia for pulling over hispanic looking males on the I 5 freeway for such obviously trumped up reasons such as tailgating at 4 in the morning, or a crack in the windshield, for the sole purpose of looking up their collective ass with a microscope in the hope of finding drugs.
The CHP's willingness to engage in seatbelt and speed crackdowns wherein random drivers are ticketed for 80 in a 70 on the uncrowded freeways of the north state where at times 100 mph in a reasonable speed, is further evidence of their willingness to act as the state gestapo enforcing the great boobacracy's cause de jour all in the name of the "public" good.
As C.S. Lewis said "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." It wouldn't bother me one wit if these uniformed do gooders disapeared tomorrow. VWW