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Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote:
>On 7 Jan 2005 15:50:50 -0800, "Christopher Green"
> wrote:
>
>>While that may indeed be the whole picture, the judge will not look at
>>a picture that is quite that whole. Traffic court judges aren't going
>>to look behind the law for its intent or the posted speed for its
>>reasonableness any more than they look behind your driving for your
>>motives. But if you waste his time
>>with "the 85th percentile speed on this highway is 60, so the posted
>>speed limit of 45 is clearly unreasonable", and there's no statute
>>allowing you to challenge a speed limit that way, you will lose quickly
>>and painfully.
>
>Great men from Ghandi to King have used Civil Disobedience to fight
>injustice. Sure, sometimes they go to jail, but in the long run they
>won because their cause was just.

Since then the system has adjusted to resist civil disobedience. Try
it now and you languish, ignored, in prison.