We're the Only Ones Exempt Enough

Among the thousands of drivers who have been issued $40 fines after being nabbed by Montgomery County's new speed cameras are scores of county police officers. The difference is, many of the officers are refusing to pay.

The officers are following the advice of their union, which says the citations are issued not to the driver but to the vehicle's owner -- in this case, the county.

Hey, how about the same defense when they shoot someone with a county-owned gun?

Don't you just love how "The Only Ones" who presume to exempt themselves from the law are the ones who are paid to enforce it against us?

Who would ever imagine servants taking such liberties with their masters?* Damned ingrates ought to be ashamed of themselves--right after they all get their corrupt hind ends fired.

[Via Raven's Beak]

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* Federal Gazette, July 2, 1789, at 2, col. 1.

"What should we think of a gentleman, who upon hiring a waiting-man, should say to him "my friend, please take notice, before we come together, that I shall always claim the liberty of eating when and what I please, of fishing and hunting upon my own ground, of keeping as many horses and hounds as I can maintain, and of speaking and writing any sentiments upon all subjects." As a mere servant, the government had no power to interfere with individual liberties in any manner without a specific delegation. "[A] master reserves to himself ... everything else which he has not committed to the care of those servants."