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Old Mar 3, 2007 | 12:32 PM
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State law says anything type/position/way of sex other than straight missionary is sodomy! See... there is all kinds of weird ones still in existence!
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Old Mar 3, 2007 | 09:25 PM
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Default speeding tickets are not about saving lives.

The best form of enforcing a law is a visible police officer in a visible police car. People don't break any kind of law in front of the cops. When the cops dress in costumes like in Pinellas County, and drive vehicles not recognizeable as police cars, it is revenue raising, and not enforcing the law.
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If anyone was serious about enforcing speed limits, they would be there
24 hours per day, instead of cops being there for a few days, and then gone for 9 months.
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If anyone was serious about reducing traffic deaths, the cops would be mostly present at the hours that most people die on the roads, and not the hours, that most tickets are written.
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In Florida they write 1/3 million speeding tickets each year.
No other category is even close!
In FL speeding is only number 4 as far as traffic crashes and death.
In FL drunk drivink is only number 6 for traffic crashes and death.
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Speeding *IS* number one as a fund raiser, and is easy to detect. They make devices to detect speeders, but make no devices to detect careless driving, the number one cause of crashes and death.
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Nation wide, with 150,000,000 licensed drivers and 50,000 highway deaths, we need THIRTY TIMES MORE DEATHS to reach even 1% of the licensed drivers.
If we have 1/30th of 1% licensed drivers dieing, this is not a significant number!
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 05:07 AM
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Originally Posted by senor honda
The best form of enforcing a law is a visible police officer in a visible police car. People don't break any kind of law in front of the cops. When the cops dress in costumes like in Pinellas County, and drive vehicles not recognizeable as police cars, it is revenue raising, and not enforcing the law.
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If anyone was serious about enforcing speed limits, they would be there
24 hours per day, instead of cops being there for a few days, and then gone for 9 months.
------------------
If anyone was serious about reducing traffic deaths, the cops would be mostly present at the hours that most people die on the roads, and not the hours, that most tickets are written.
-------------------
In Florida they write 1/3 million speeding tickets each year.
No other category is even close!
In FL speeding is only number 4 as far as traffic crashes and death.
In FL drunk drivink is only number 6 for traffic crashes and death.
-------------------
Speeding *IS* number one as a fund raiser, and is easy to detect. They make devices to detect speeders, but make no devices to detect careless driving, the number one cause of crashes and death.
--------------
Nation wide, with 150,000,000 licensed drivers and 50,000 highway deaths, we need THIRTY TIMES MORE DEATHS to reach even 1% of the licensed drivers.
If we have 1/30th of 1% licensed drivers dieing, this is not a significant number!
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Folks most of what you think life is about, is untrue, and there is a tremendous safety industry based on false premises, and with so much at stake, NO ONE has the political courage to admit it.-Bob

if you don't mind could your provide a source for these stats? they could use useful in a letter, and they would look better if they person writting it could show they came from a crediable source
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by monkey paw
if you don't mind could your provide a source for these stats? they could use useful in a letter, and they would look better if they person writting it could show they came from a crediable source
Well, the first 3 are his opinions.. so there will not be any credible sources for them.. Just Bob.

The rest might be good info if you can get the sources with em.
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by monkey paw
if you don't mind could your provide a source for these stats? they could use useful in a letter, and they would look better if they person writting it could show they came from a crediable source
I dont see why everyone is trying to write this guy, from what looks like his automated response I doubt it will change his opinion.
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by JonWRX
I dont see why everyone is trying to write this guy, from what looks like his automated response I doubt it will change his opinion.

well in that case:
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Old Mar 4, 2007 | 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by JonWRX
I dont see why everyone is trying to write this guy, from what looks like his automated response I doubt it will change his opinion.
One would write the ones local representative and ask he/she support or turn down the bill dependant on your opinion. Writing this guy is simply letting him know that when he rund for governer, we'll remember his name and will be against it.
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 06:35 AM
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This bill should be rejected on the grounds of it encroaching upon our rights as private citizens. The mere fact that it happens to be about the use of radar detectors is simply ancilliary to this main point. If police are going to be allowed use radar, we should be able to use detectors to detect their use otherwise it is a form of illegal search. The constitution is not a guideline, nor a reccomendation, it should be followed to the greatest extent or be amended if deemed necessary through proper procedures.

Furthermore, this bill has no logical basis what so ever. Look here for a study done on drivers using radar detectors and those that don't: http://driverstechnology.co.uk/Morisurvey.pdf

Cliff notes on the study: those that use radar detectors go roughly 60,000miles longer without having an accident compared to those that don't have them.

Those of you who believe this law is about actually protecting citizens, traffic saftey, etc are living in a dream land. That is not what this law is about. There has been no technical nor engineering study done prefacing this bill to prove that motivation. It is simply for revenue generation and in the process is eroding the rights of the citizens. There is no merit to this bill, at all.

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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by BOOST JUNKIE
Those of you who believe this law is about actually protecting citizens, traffic saftey, etc are living in a dream land. That is not what this law is about. There has been no technical nor engineering study done prefacing this bill to prove that motivation. It is simply for revenue generation and in the process is eroding the rights of the citizens. There is no merit to this bill, at all.
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