The Problem With Big Little Government

Bill Barnwell reports:

Your local government has its local police force. The same local police force that has regular times of the year when it needs to increase its ticket quota. The same local government which employs that police officer who parks his police car in discreet speed traps so he or she can ticket you.

Your local government also has that elected judge who is buddies with the cop who gave you the ticket for going a few miles over in the speed trap. In that local courthouse, the deck is usually stacked against you. In that cop’s police report he gets away with lying about you or overstating his case. His partner gets away with committing perjury on the witness stand about his buddy’s encounter with you. Their friend, the judge, lets it happen.

The judge is also friends with numerous powerful public and local officials in the community who get slaps on the wrists for the real crimes they commit. That’s if the judge doesn’t just bury the case to begin with. You however, dear reader, don’t typically have that luxury. Unless, of course, you join the local power system yourself, rather than challenge it.

Imagine that.