. . .the cops issuing these citations could be shooting unarmed people. So, there is that.

of #SHUTDOWNTHEF&CKBARREL

In this case it is 'rent to own'!

AND I ensure I am BELOW the posted speed limit,,,,,,

significantly over the past few decades.

Police shakedowns and brutality were the norm.

Now that we don't have a Soviet Union to worry about.................................

That's what Rand Paul was saying about Eric Garner.

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legitimate problems. It means that something about the driver or the car is probably dangerous, or that the person is not insured.


There's a better option than paying a $200 fine or going to jail. The person can also register the car for typically much less money.

As in: asking why so many of the state's citizens cannot afford basic auto expenses.

If people in the community are all too poor to pay fines, and the answer is to create more expense by incarcerating them, perhaps the Sad State of Missouri should ask some tough questions about the economy in the state.

Why are so many people in poverty?

If they spent some time and resources to fix that problem, you'll find the other problems you mentioned - the "dangerously" poor - would mysteriously disappear.

But it's just too gosh darn fun and lucrative to criminalize poverty and use the poor to generate more dollahs.

It's not about public safety or the good of the community - it's about greedy people who prey on the least of these. We endure the same exploitation here in TN. The rich get a pass; the poor get hosed for more than they own.

in order to get her license plates, then smeared mud on the plates when they expired. She got away with it for 4 years, until she rear-ended someone, and was outraged when they impounded her car. $650.00 in fines, plus proof of insurance for one year to get it back. She didn't find my laughter funny. Middle class, white, Republican.

His car is safe, we have insurance, has never ever been in an accident.
The problem?
The county stopped sending reminders of expired tags a few years ago.
We are retired and live "off the clock". It is incredibly easy to forget to check the tags.
He got the tags last week, they were due in Jan.
The fine: 20,00.

I forgot my tags one year when I was working here.
Cop at the gas pump noticed i was overdue, by a year.
He casually commented I might to stop at the courthouse down the block and get new tags.
We both laughed, I got the tags, paid the 20.00 bucks extra.

Somehow I suspect both times it would have been different if we were not white.

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And must turn them in if there is even a brief lapse, so there is a connection between the two here.

they don't issue plates any more, I was told.

The irony: we live less than a mile from the courthouse and pass it at least once a week.
There are ZERO lines to get tags or renew driver's license, either.

The police are here to keep the peasants in line and obviously gouge every damn dime they have out of the mouths of their kids!

So wrap that flag around you tight America and raise your ar-15 and bible high!

Ain't it great to be an american!