Rad Geek People's Daily

But forget the particularities of my case. Here's the larger point: things like this happen every day, dozens of times a day, in every municipal court in the land. And they happen more often than that in a large number of vehicle stops made on every roadway (and some driveways and parking lots) in the land. Huge numbers of traffic cases, along with misdemeanor and petty disorderly persons cases, give the appearance of serving some legitimate "law and order" purpose but are really just legalized and legalistic mumbo-jumbo tied to revenue-generating schemes. Such schemes are themselves driven not only by law enforcement agencies but by the kind of upstanding citizen who demands "government services" without wanting to pay for them.

–Irfan Khawaja, Cashing the Check of Justice
Policy of Truth (19-Sextilis-2019)