All of us are prone to getting traffic tickets.
Be it for parking, speeding, reckless driving, not wearing a safety belt, driving under influence of drugs or alcohol or defects on your car, the opportunities to get our blood pressure boiling are legio and increase just about daily.
While the easiest way out of this dilemma is admitting guilt and paying the fine, this option reinforces our slavery to the system, it can eventually cost you your drivers licence or maybe even your job. Given the trend to ever more traffic laws being implemented and fines being increased regularly, our budgets may seriously be affected in the long run.
The other option we have is fighting the ticket.
Though the time and effort involved in this option may look like a serious draw back, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. So let's look at them.
1. Opportunity to exercise our inherent rights
Our right to disagree with statutes and bylaws, implemented solely to generate revenue for municipalities and local councils, is being ignored when they are passed. By choosing the option to fight a traffic ticket, we are in effect taking back that right to say NO to their laws.
Depending on the circumstances of the confrontation, we may also get the opportunity to exercise our right to dignity and fair treatment.
2. Opportunity to exercise our authority and freedom
Traffic cops are public servants, bound to follow their statutes/laws to promote the well being of the inhabitants of the land. We, the public are their masters. Being stopped while exercising our right of free movement is a violation of that right as long as we do not harm others. When we use our authority correctly, we can regain our right to free movement, which is being restricted by every new statute they pass.
3. Opportunity to learn more about the legal system
A trial gives us the opportunity to learn more about the legal system they use to enslave us. It challenges us to find the loopholes in that system.
4. Opportunity to grow our self confidence
Every traffic ticket we fight and win increases our self confidence and makes us feel good about having accomplished a new task. Life is about learning new things.
5. Good chance a parking ticket will not be followed up
With the courts being over filled, it may be cheaper for the authorities to just forget about a $30 parking fine than to press through with it. So ask for a trial date, then wait and see if you get one.
6. Good chance to have your ticket withdrawn, dismissed or reduced.
For more details about the reasons for this point, you can go HERE. Even though it is a Canadian site, the points they mention are general points applicable in almost every legal system. Mentioning all of them here will only be a duplication and make my post too long.
One very important point they do not mention, however, is that you should NOT plead anything at the trial and if the judge or magistrate tries to enter a plea on your behalf, object immediately.
It is my honest opinion that we should make a point of opting to fight traffic tickets instead of just paying the fine. We can only win once we start fighting the slave system imposed on us.
Be it for parking, speeding, reckless driving, not wearing a safety belt, driving under influence of drugs or alcohol or defects on your car, the opportunities to get our blood pressure boiling are legio and increase just about daily.
While the easiest way out of this dilemma is admitting guilt and paying the fine, this option reinforces our slavery to the system, it can eventually cost you your drivers licence or maybe even your job. Given the trend to ever more traffic laws being implemented and fines being increased regularly, our budgets may seriously be affected in the long run.
The other option we have is fighting the ticket.
Though the time and effort involved in this option may look like a serious draw back, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. So let's look at them.
1. Opportunity to exercise our inherent rights
Our right to disagree with statutes and bylaws, implemented solely to generate revenue for municipalities and local councils, is being ignored when they are passed. By choosing the option to fight a traffic ticket, we are in effect taking back that right to say NO to their laws.
Depending on the circumstances of the confrontation, we may also get the opportunity to exercise our right to dignity and fair treatment.
2. Opportunity to exercise our authority and freedom
Traffic cops are public servants, bound to follow their statutes/laws to promote the well being of the inhabitants of the land. We, the public are their masters. Being stopped while exercising our right of free movement is a violation of that right as long as we do not harm others. When we use our authority correctly, we can regain our right to free movement, which is being restricted by every new statute they pass.
3. Opportunity to learn more about the legal system
A trial gives us the opportunity to learn more about the legal system they use to enslave us. It challenges us to find the loopholes in that system.
4. Opportunity to grow our self confidence
Every traffic ticket we fight and win increases our self confidence and makes us feel good about having accomplished a new task. Life is about learning new things.
5. Good chance a parking ticket will not be followed up
With the courts being over filled, it may be cheaper for the authorities to just forget about a $30 parking fine than to press through with it. So ask for a trial date, then wait and see if you get one.
6. Good chance to have your ticket withdrawn, dismissed or reduced.
For more details about the reasons for this point, you can go HERE. Even though it is a Canadian site, the points they mention are general points applicable in almost every legal system. Mentioning all of them here will only be a duplication and make my post too long.
One very important point they do not mention, however, is that you should NOT plead anything at the trial and if the judge or magistrate tries to enter a plea on your behalf, object immediately.
It is my honest opinion that we should make a point of opting to fight traffic tickets instead of just paying the fine. We can only win once we start fighting the slave system imposed on us.
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