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Originally Posted by Scissors
The taking of property by the government isn't exactly new to our laws, and is even allowed by the Constitution.
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It's only allowed by the Constitution under specific circumstances involving large scale necessary public works projects, and the owners must be fairly compensated. That's REALLY REALLY different from the cops stealing your stuff on the spot from an alleged felony, and usually not giving it back even if you never actually get charged with the crime. (This happens frequently with drug allegations already.)
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Originally Posted by Thunderace1997
Your not going to jail for triple didgets, your going to jail for 50mph over. So fi the speed limit is 70mph and your doing 121mph then BAM, your fined the first time and maybe jail, fined the second time and maybe jail and thrid time your fined, bike gone and your in jail. Sounds like its fair to me.
THere's no need to got 120mph in a 70mph, theres no need to go 100mph in a 50mph, theres no need to go 75 mph in a 25mph.
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There's no need to have a sportbike in the first place. There's no need to have more than one room to live in. Etc. It's not the Bill of Needs. The idea was that we should be free to act as we like as long as we're not actually harming anyone.
When I was in college, I used to make my trips to visit my family late at night. At 0200h, on a completely empty 4-lane freeway, with clear visibility, in a well maintained Alfa Romeo, I could safely cruise at about 110mph, and did so probably almost 100 times. Made Santa Barbara to San Diego in about 2 1/2 hours or less typically. The speed limit at the time was still the federally mandated 55mph, so I was more than 50mph over for a total of over 20,000 miles of driving. With no accidents, not even any close calls, at all. For this, according to this law they'd want to lock me up for life. That's bullshit.
PhilB