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Another false accusation of racism… — 47 Comments

1. SJWs always project and they always lie.
   I don’t care if he calls himself a pastor, he falls squarely into the category of “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

2. That was exactly the kind of officer you want to stop you for any kind of traffic infraction.

   The other thing (and this is probably just me) is there is something about seeing any member of any kind of clergy driving a luxury type vehicle that really bothers me. And I don’t care what color the skin is either. I also realize it is prejudice on my part to think this way but I can’t help it.

   Very, very off putting.

   Edited to add:

   Also, just the way the Reverend wrote up his interaction bothers me as well. This man is supposed to be a communicator? Really?

3. Let’s face it. In recent years the erudition and respectableness among these “Reverands” has become less than zero. They’re just cheap race hustlers.

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5. OK, so there’s a video that shows the guy’s a liar. Whats that got to do with anything? This is as if you believe powerful evidence somehow has the ability to destroy a narrative once it has been created.

   Oh, and Im with Fractile Rabbit: What Would Jesus Drive?

6. I don’t see the point of stopping someone for failing to put on a turn signal.

7. Dude was pulled over for a turn signal infraction – and then just let go. So the cop was clearly profiling this guy and just wanted to check him out. The Rev didn’t need to make up any story. All he had to do was point out the obvious that the cop was pulling him over so he could check him out, and the ridiculous excuse was an infraction none of us would have been fined for. So the question then becomes – why did the cop feel compelled to check him out?

8. Unless there’s something wrong with the video, this happened at night.
   So the cop would have had to be really close to figure out who was driving, and then waited for him to make a mistake.
   Or he flashed his lights on the guy after the mistake and, seeing the driver was black, decided to complete the traffic stop instead of waving, “my bad, hit the switch, forget it” which he always does with white drivers

9. Gringo and Maggot,

   First, because it is likely a violation in that state. It is a violation in mine that will net you a $200 fine.

   Second, because failure to use a turn signal can be an indicator of other factors like distracted driving (due to texting or such), DUI or Driving without a License*.

   This cop, unlike many that make the news due to being recorded, was doing his job. And he did it politely and professionally.

   Once he determined that the guy was who he said he was, wasn’t drunk or high, had no active warrants and then verified that the car was his (all good police work i.e. the kind of work you want done in your neighborhood), he then let the guy go on his way with advice on how to fix his problem with the DMV, rather than ticketing him (Imagine a far less polite and professional LEO with an ax to grind and having a bad day and pulling the guy over and then discovering the License Plates don’t match; It would have been a bad day for the Reverend and his family if they were in the car with him)

   This Officer did the man a favor.

   *You would likely be shocked at the number of people driving around at this very moment without a Drivers License. And I don’t just mean that they forgot their license at home. They don’t have one for any number of reasons. Suspended, under the age of 16, or plain old They Just Never Bothered To Get One (or learn to drive).

   On any given traffic court day where I live, easily 70% of the court calendar is tickets for driving without a license. I imagine its waaaaay worse in regions with a higher degree of illegal aliens.

10. One of the reasons why police unions so resisted body cameras was because they knew it would provide too much evidence of what their black pals and what they themselves were cooking up in the inner cities. They knew what youtube was years ago.

    If each LEO didn’t have to rely on the Blue Line or the unions for their job and protection from lawsuits, they would begin to foment rebellion and disagreement about union policies. We can’t have that happening. It’d be worse than Kan trying to escape the Hollywood plantation.

11. The other thing (and this is probably just me) is there is something about seeing any member of any kind of clergy driving a luxury type vehicle that really bothers me. And I don’t care what color the skin is either. I also realize it is prejudice on my part to think this way but I can’t help it.

    That’s not a pastor, that’s a Church of Lucifer that got rich quick off indulgences, just like the Vatican did.

    Historically black churches have been milking the black community with the whole Liberation Doctrine, Black jesus, and blacks are the real Jews theology since Martin Luther died.

12. I have had one traffic ticket in all my days and decades of driving. I was 16 and driving to pick up a date. When I turned down the girls street I failed to signal, and a small town’s lone police officer pulled me over and wrote out a ticket. Then he told me to make sure I know all the driving laws and to go to the traffic court and plead not guilty. He noted my puzzled expresssion and told me he wouldn’t show up in court so the judge would let me go without a fine.

    There are wonderful cops, mediocre cops, and some very bad cops.

13. It’s nonsense to assume that it’s “profiling” when somebody gets pulled over for some minor thing. It was dark, as the video clearly shows. Can you tell what color the other drivers around you are, as they zoom past you in the middle of the night? Right — neither can the cops.

    Failing to signal a turn or to dim your high beams for an approaching vehicle (as I once did, by accident, when the approaching vehicle was a State Trooper) will get you pulled over because it might indicate a significant reason for your minor carelessness, such as being drunk. Or, as in my case, it might just mean that it was late at night and I was tired and my attention failed for a moment. A professional officer will do just what this one did: check out the details, get you to talk so he can smell your breath, figure out any irregularities, and when it’s shown that all is well, send you politely on your way. I’ve been stopped just like that, and let go just like that. I’m not black or a member of any other “profiling” category – I’m just an occasionally distracted driver, like most people, and that will tend to attract the attention of a careful cop.

    Calling it “profiling” because the officer stopped the guy on a turn signal violation is just a way of distracting attention from the driver’s lies about his treatment, and trying to make the encounter conform to The Narrative after all.

14. Gringo and Maggot would forgive him for breaking a traffic law that is there for a purpose. A law.
    Having plates that indicate the identity of the vehicle also has a purpose, by another law.
    Laws.
    He was let off with an explanation, kindly.
    So he grossly lied about it afterwards.

    There is no place in America for the likes of him.

    The “Reverend” Jerrod Moultrie is an exploiter, a black thug in civilized garb, a racist. He lives off his congregation pretty well, driving a M-B, at what is likely an African Methodist Episcopal church, a doctrinal bastard if there ever was one.
    He, and the many like him, are the reason I have some prejudice. These are not MLK,Jrs, they are ripoff artists who are anti-white and lie from the pulpit because it mobilizes the sheep under their alleged pastoral care. He is one of thousands just like the “Rev.” Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, Obama’s preacher. When I see black, I cannot help but also see these creatures who, like termites, are eating the great American Home of the Brave.

15. Maggot Says:

    “So the question then becomes — why did the cop feel compelled to check him out?”

    because if it is a slow night; pulling people over like this is one way to catch people with warrants, or DUI (see if thats why they screwed up the turn signal), or you smell weed, et cetera. I had it happen once. Ended up with a fix it ticket… re: it is police work…

16. It seems rather … unseemly for a clergyman to be tootling around in a luxury car of that sort. And quite imprudent for all but an odd minority. People of exceptional affluence ought to soak up that income having another child (if possible) or add to their retirement fund or make more philanthropic donations or entertain more ‘ere they consider luxury display goods. A Benz is really for someone for whom $30,000 is sofa change, and no one employed outside of the business world should be in that income category.

    I cannot help but note he is president of the state chapter of an organization whose institutional mission is spurious. When Bruce Gordon (an executive retired from Verizon) was executive director of the national organization, he drafted plans to re-orient it toward practical social work programs. After a couple of years of tangling with the national board, he resigned, saying they evidently not reconciled to his agenda and that he was fed up with arguing with Julian Bond (who, unlike the accomplished Mr. Gordon, is a no account). After his departure, they hired a tedious nonprofit-sector functionary named Benjamin Jealous and announced their new priority: a federal hate crimes bill. So, his association with the NAACP is a strong indication he’s a fool or a poseur.

17. The Mega churches of evangelicals made a lot more than this black church does. It’s not a problem, if fairness and free religion is the law of the land.

    After all, there’s no law or reason why the Church of Lucifer can’t setup shop in the Home of the Brave and land of the free.

    This isn’t the Israelite 12 tribes, where a god commanded that everyone that worships gods that they weren’t supposed to, gets killed as a consequence. This isn’t even the State of Israel where Judaism is the de facto, if not de jure, religion.

    People are free to do what they want, within limits. The only problem is… only a few people told the American public that this freedom was going to be used to take everybody else’s freedom away in a few decades.

    I suspect that the original 10 laws Moses brought down from the mountain contained a lot of these “freedoms” which when Moses saw some Aaron golden calf worship going on, decided humans don’t need freedom. They need to be told what not to do first before they can exercise freedom. The original 10 law tablets were broken by Moses. The 10 commandments we have are the rewritten ones. Abraham, Adam, Noah, all got their versions.

18. Why on earth would he not realize that to begin with?

    The Spirit of Lucifer, is the counterpart of what some call the Holy Ghost/Spirit.

    That great spirit resides in people just as the holy ghost does. It’s a kind of agreed upon contractual mutually beneficial possession clause.

    The Spirit of Lucifer says “Do What Thou Will”. You will get fame and fortune from this world, as a result. “Hell” will merely be your reward where what you did here, will be replicated endlessly there, and thus you will get to enjoy endless pleasures. Lake of fire is reserved for the messengers and family of Lucifer, of which he will rule there in his little pocket dimension. They kind of mish mashed together the concepts of the Underworld/Hades/Sheol with Hell and the Lake of Fire. Two different places.

    The Jesus plan apparently wasn’t all that nice. If you follow him, he said you will be hated and persecuted… hey, who wants that. That doesn’t sound good at all.

    http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gehenna

    The Gehenna entry had a lot of interesting stuff. It explains where people got the brimstone from at least.

19. Jerrod Moultrie

    Welcome to the Kingdom of Lucifer, mortal. Your Father will be proud that you have done his Work to this extent.

    You may want to be smarter about it later on, when the Eternal War concludes in the Final Battle.

    At least, make sure you don’t stand in front of my sight at that time. You don’t want to be the first wave of cannon fodder.

20. My daughter got a ticket for failure to use a turn signal when making a lane change! In broad daylight. And she’s whiter than white. Please don’t give me that “profiling” crap. Years ago, the NAACP (shouldn’t that be changed to the NAAPoC?) or some such organization complained that New Jersey State Troopers were giving too many tickets for speeding on the New Jersey Turnpike. So they did a massive study with cameras, timers, etc. Guess what? Black drivers sped disproportionately more than white drivers.

21. It was really ugly of the minister to so grossly lie about his encounter with traffic police. Ugly as well as profoundly stupid. Was he hoping to incite a riot? Was he hoping that this or some other police officer might be ambushed and shot? These are far from idle questions given the current climate of American life.

    And here in the comment thread he has two defenders, strangers to the blog, who defend not his inventions and lies, but choose instead too attack the blameless police officer by invented calumny of their own.

22. miklos:
    “Gringo” is no newcomer.
    “Maggot” is aptly named, and is, presumably, new, unless flying under a false nom de guerre.

23. Gringo and Maggot would forgive him for breaking a traffic law that is there for a purpose. A law.

    Consider the following comment:

    First, because it is likely a violation in that state. It is a violation in mine that will net you a $200 fine.

    If one pays a $200 fine for not using a turn signal, the fine is there more for revenue collection than it is there for traffic safety.

    I am reminded of getting a ticket for walking across a red light at 3 a.m. in Oakland with no traffic in sight ( except for the officer behind me). I consider that a chickens*** ticket. Perhaps you don’t.

24. miklos000rosza, 10:45 pm — “It was really ugly of the minister to so grossly lie about his encounter with traffic police. Ugly as well as profoundly stupid. Was he hoping to incite a riot?”

    We must realize that people such as this “minister” work with a standard of truth that is far more exalted than that used by us mere mortals. That standard is “what I want to believe if my worldview is to be validated and, when possible, reinforced.” Exhibits include wymyn from Tawanna Brawley to Hillary Clinton, and men from Jerrod Moultrie to James Comey. There is scant consideration in such an exalted standard for mere empirical evidence, a k a objective historical fact.

    Frighteningly many people are buying into the exalted standard, evidenced on the national level by the mainstream media knowingly propagating ideologically-inspired fantasy. Most of us here at neo’s know the drill well, no need to elaborate . . .

25. Interesting that the ‘narrative mechanics’ bother to show up to try to astroturf over such a clearly counter narrative occurrence. That is what I like about Neo’s critical as opposed to ideological approach. This post is a caution against the utterly false way claims are commonly put forward today with no regard for truth.

26. Gringo,

    We can debate your chicken**** ticket till the cows come home. But you ignore the other reasons that I and others have given for stopping this guy.

    So, basically you once got a dumb ticket and now you have an ax to grind.

    But this guy didn’t get a ticket and in fact was treated fairly.

    Lorenz Gude,

    I’m not sure if I would label Gringo a ‘Narrative Mechanic’. He’s a regular.

27. In MA you’d get pulled over for actually using your turn signal as it would indicate you aren’t a local or are, but impaired in some way. 😉

    Occam’s Razor: he was pulled over for a minor infraction because it might indicate something more serious was going on (DUI, etc.). The cop treated the man respectfully and sent him on his way, without a citation, after he determined there was not a serious issue.

28. But you ignore the other reasons that I and others have given for stopping this guy.

    Since the only reason that matters is the one given by the two people involved in the incident, the reasons people try to come up with ex post facto is meaningless. It is merely part of somebody’s Red vs Blue exalted truth.

    Having a viewpoint is not something that requires one to adhere to the Red or Blue exalted truth. Each faction and side will have their own dogma and doctrine, but again, compared to the evidence and people, it is something extraneous.

    This is where the conservatives think that by becoming the Left, they can defeat the Left.

    This is very predictable. First it was, Thou Shall Not Insult the Prophet of Islam. After that, comes isolated, freezing individuals, and coercing them to have certain views about the Prophet of Islam. That comes from a tribalistic, factionalistic, emotional response based on fear. The left creates this fear. And those fighting the Left, also gain fear from that fight.

29. https://civilwartalk.com/threads/lincolns-2nd-inauguration-speech-the-civil-war-was-the-%e2%80%9clord%e2%80%99s-judgement%e2%80%9d-for-slavery.110229/

    In an earlier post, I mentioned a sermon by Benjamin Morgan Palmer. He was, per wiki, “an orator and Presbyterian theologian, was the first moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. As pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans, his Thanksgiving sermon in 1860 had a great influence in leading Louisiana to join the Confederate States of America. After 1865 he was minister in the Presbyterian Church in the United States.”

    Palmer gave an influential “Thanksgiving Sermon” on November 29, 1860, shortly after Lincoln won the White House. In it, Palmer says that the South, to protect its identity and independence, must conserve and perpetuate slavery, which he says is the region’s “providential trust.” Palmer literally states that slavery is a “trust from God” and that protecting slavery puts southerners on the highest moral ground.

    The full text is here, this is an interesting excerpt.

    *********In determining our duty in this emergency it is necessary that we should first ascertain the nature of the trust providentially committed to us. A nation often has a character as well defined and intense as that of an individual. This depends, of course upon a variety of causes operating through a long period of time. It is due largely to the original traits which distinguish the stock from which it springs, and to the providential training which has formed its education. But, however derived, this individuality of character alone makes any people truly historic, competent to work out its specific mission, and to become a factor in the world’s progress. The particular trust assigned to such a people becomes the pledge of the divine protection; and their fidelity to it determines the fate by which it is finally overtaken. What that trust is must be ascertained from the necessities of their position, the institutions which are the outgrowth of their principles and the conflicts through which they preserve their identity and independence.

    If then the South is such a people, what, at this juncture, is their providential trust? I answer, that it is to conserve and to perpetuate the institution of domestic slavery as now existing. It is not necessary here to inquire whether this is precisely the best relation in which the hewer of wood and drawer of water can stand to his employer; although this proposition may perhaps be successfully sustained by those who choose to defend it. Still less are we required, dogmatically, to affirm that it will subsist through all time. Baffled as our wisdom may now be in finding a solution of this intricate social problem, it would nevertheless be the height of arrogance to pronounce what changes may or may not occur in the distant future. In the grand march of events Providence may work out a solution undiscoverable by us. What modifications of soil and climate may hereafter be produced, what consequent changes in the products on which we depend, what political revolutions may occur among the races which are now enacting the great drama of history: all such inquiries are totally irrelevant because no prophetic vision can pierce the darkness of that future. If this question should ever arise, the generation to whom it is remitted will doubtless have the wisdom to meet it, and Providence will furnish the lights in which it is to be resolved. All that we claim for them, for ourselves, is liberty to work out this problem, guided by nature and God, without obtrusive interference from abroad.

    These great questions of Providence and history must have free scope for their solution; and the race whose fortunes are distinctly implicated in the same is alone authorized, as it is alone competent, to determine them. It is just this impertinence of human legislation, setting bounds to what God alone can regulate, that the South is called this day to resent and resist.

    The country is convulsed simply because “the throne of iniquity frameth mischief by a law.” Without, therefore, determining the question of duty for future generations, I simply say, that for us, as now situated, the duty is plain of conserving and transmitting the system of slavery, with the freest scope for its natural development and extension. Let us, my brethren, look our duty in the face. With this institution assigned to our keeping, what reply shall we make to those who say that its days are numbered? My own conviction is, that we should at once lift ourselves, intelligently, to the highest moral ground and proclaim to all the world that we hold this trust from God, and in its occupancy we are prepared to stand or fall as God may appoint. If the critical moment has arrived at which the great issue is joined, let us say that, in the sight of all perils, we will stand by our trust; and God be with the right!

    Religion, as a control scheme, has been intimately associated with wars, State power, and control of the people (whether as slaves or free white workers).

    The blacks merely learned how South Carolina’s religious leaders did it and used it on other blacks, putting them into subservience. This is a much tighter, more totalitarian, system of control than Jim Jones’ cult that had to use rifles to keep the people in check.

    Here, the black faithful keep their own in check. Just as they do to Kan in Hollywood.

    This “god” that people worship isn’t the one mentioned by Abraham or Moses. The doctrines and dogma are all different.

30. steve walsh
    In MA you’d get pulled over for actually using your turn signal as it would indicate you aren’t a local or are, but impaired in some way.

    Yup. Consider the Mass Pike, where I have seen people driving 65 on the shoulder, or where average speeds are well above the speed limit- or at least they were back in the day. A hometown friend got a ticket for speeding on the Mass Pike. The reaction of her brothers: “You got a ticket for speeding? On the Mass Pike?”

    From my experience, the worst drivers in the country are to be found from Route 128 on in. If cops ticketed all the insane driving from 128 on in, the state budget would have a humongous surplus. But given Mass politics, the surplus would probably end up in politicians’ off the books accounts.

    As the minister didn’t get a ticket for not using the turn signal, I guess the conclusion would be no harm, no foul. As I previously pointed out, had it led to a $200 fine (a commenter stated that was a consequence on one state), then the conclusion would be the traffic stop had more to do with revenue enhancement than with public safety.

31. Gringo the Resentful: A LAW is a law. Get it?
    Probably not.
    If you disapprove, work to change it. But, nevertheless, obey the LAW.
    I do not want your justice, based on ad hoc objections, like it is revenue generation, not public safety. Says you. I am distressed all the time in traffic when a cretin ahead of me suddenly brakes, then turns, without using the turn signal, forcing me to mash on my own brakes and risk being rear-ended. That is a public safety matter.
    Next you’ll tell us it is OK to run Stop signs because it is late and you can see no other cars.
    Sheesh.

32. Gringo the Resentful: A LAW is a law. Get it?
    Probably not.
    What is your reaction to this?

    As the minister didn’t get a ticket for not using the turn signal, I guess the conclusion would be no harm, no foul.

    I pointed out that in Massachusetts, my observation was that there was relatively little ticketing compared to number of traffic violations ( driving 65 on the shoulder is rather dangerous behavior) , and also implied a certain amount of disapproval for that lack of ticketing.

    Next you’ll tell us it is OK to run Stop signs because it is late and you can see no other cars.
    Don’t put words into my mouth. Unnerstan’?

    BTW, when I see how Berserkely and Oakland cops currently have a hands-off attitude towards violent demonstrators of the Antifa variety, I DO have some resentment for being ticketed in Oakland for walking across a red light when there was no visible traffic in my sight of vision. It’s called selective enforcement. I object to that. I hope that you do also.

33. My original statement, which raised some ire:

    I don’t see the point of stopping someone for failing to put on a turn signal.

    Rephrase: Stopping someone for a trivial offense can be used as a way to investigate more serious violations, such as a stolen car or DWI. As such, stopping a driver for not using a turn signal is a valid police tactic. In general, I do not see the point of paying a fine for a trivial offense like using a turn signal- especially if so doing did not at that time endanger other drivers. The policeman in Parker’s comment @ May 18th, 2018 at 7:25 pm agreed with me.

    One time I was stopped on a freeway for driving too slowly. The policeman said I was driving 50, while I was intent on keeping the speed at 55.I merely pointed out I was trying to keep it at 55, and apologized if I had not keeping it at 55. He asked why I was not driving faster. I replied that the person at my destination didn’t arrive home until 5:30, and I didn’t want to arrive too soon. I got no ticket. No harm, no foul.

34. I do not want your justice, based on ad hoc objections, like it is revenue generation, not public safety.

    Far from being “ad hoc” it is an issue. Bing search: traffic fines as revenue. Especially California. What a surprise. 🙂 (It was also an issue in Ferguson.)

35. A black pastor I know of in Omaha owns two Mercedes. Contrast that with the Jesuit President at Creighton. I’m guessing his salary is at the market $500k-$1m which he gives to the Society of Jesus. He drives whatever Ford or Chevy that’s available that day in the motor pool.

36. Cornhead for sure mentioning Society of Jesus will trigger Mr Y & his anti Cath, screeds.

37. 2004 Honda Civic & 1998 Kia Carnival
    bought 1st one used & 2nd one new
    Does that mean I win the “trustworthy sweepstakes”?

    My wife’s cut off is “pastor wearing cufflinks”…haven’t had any of those since I was 10…a looong time ago.

    Just sayin’ 😉

38. I’m guessing his salary is at the market $500k-$1m which he gives to the Society of Jesus. He drives whatever Ford or Chevy that’s available that day in the motor pool.

    I’m pretty sure the rule of just about all religious orders would prevent him from retaining any of his notional salary. You live communally, are subject to strict limits on the chattels you may possess, and get a modest stipend from your order.

39. Cornhead for sure mentioning Society of Jesus will trigger Mr Y & his anti Cath, screeds.

    Actually, there’s a few number of anti Catholic and anti Jesuit society people here. I didn’t understand what they were talking about 3+ years ago, but now I do.

    MollyNH Says:
    May 19th, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    Talking about teaching new gun owner things will trigger gun instructors here. I’ve seen it before.

    That is true even if nobody is actually teaching new gun owners. Just the very idea will create a backlash.

    State Religions have been killing people long before I arrived on this Earth. Me talking about it is something that offends people who want to ignore history though.

    Also, if a Southerner starts talking about the Civil War, I guarantee that the counter topic I raise will trigger them if they were unaware of the facts.

    Anything that triggers a backlash from people that don’t want to see it or hear it, is perceived as a screed.

    To clarify something, I am anti all religious hypocrites and State Religious bullsh. It doesn’t matter what you call yourselves or your control scheme.

40. I hope that you do also.

    People object to what makes them emotional. It is an excellent control technique. It works as well on high IQ as low IQ, as for doctor class and Mexican worker class.

    The Democrats use it on Leftists and conservatives: red vs blue.

    Look at that emotionalism and core. People think they are being rational when their very response mimicks SJW trigger safe spaces. It’s not that bad yet, but it will only get worse as time goes. This isn’t even a major election cycle.

41. Diversitists, including people who indulge in color judgments (e.g. racism), are on a self-defeating social justice adventure. Everyone knows.

42. Question was two-fold. Why lie, and why when it was so obvious that the lie would be found out.
    For 1, because to be seen to be victimized is a deposit in the moral authority account. So, make some up if you can.

    2. Possibly the good rev didn’t see the camera or presume its possible presence. But it could be that he could count on two results among his flock–those seeking offence–which would be “don’t care, he’s on our side” , and a knowing nod, “I know what I know” often deployed when overwhelming evidence is jumping up and down to the contrary.

    Wrt deposits in the moral authority account;
    https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/09/13/have-we-got-matthew-shepard-all-wrong

    Article in The Advocate about the possibility that St. Matthew was, in fact, killed by some methed-out freaks whom he knew and wanted his money or were just out of control on drugs. Not gay-bashing homophobic thugs. Point is not which side looks most likely, but the discussion as to what the gay community gains or loses depending on which answer is generally accepted as the motivation for the murder.
    There are references to other articles about the motivation of the Pulse night club shooter. I didn’t read them but I get the impression the same question is being discussed.

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44. I don’t know how many people caught that the Rev failed to signal a LEFT turn. That is more hazardous because they are crossing oncoming traffic (vs. a right turn, where cross traffic will likely not see your right turn signal flash). I also recall (in Oklahoma) reading that if you have only one functioning headlight, it better be the left one, so oncoming traffic has a better idea of where your car is at night. An unsignalled left turn is more hazardous than an unsignalled right turn, though both are bad practices (habits).

    As for the officer, he sounded just like every officer who’d ever pulled me over for anything. I’ve never received a ticket for anything, for which I’m grateful. I always get anxious if I’m pulled over; I think everybody does. But some people try to deal with that anxiety by saying the police are unfairly targeting them. I’m reminded of some people I knew in high school who would deliberately do poorly in a class, and claim the teacher “didn’t like them” so they weren’t going to waste their time trying to satisfy the teacher. Myself, if I knew a college professor was biased, I didn’t take her class. If I took a class and the professor acted like they didn’t like me, I’d do extra-well on the work just to blow that prof out of the water. My performance was not going to suffer just because of my perception of their emotions.

    So this Rev was pulled over for failing to signal a left turn; he could easily have gotten a ticket. His documentation was improper; the officer gave him the benefit of the doubt when the Rev said why he’d thought his documentation was fine. The officer spoke respectfully and let the man go with a warning and some helpful advice. The Rev then seems to think he’s been shamed in front of his neighbors because they may have seen him pulled over by a cop. (A) He’s assuming his neighbors have no experience being pulled over nor that they themselves likewise feel embarrassed about it, and (B) he decides that it is better to slander a police officer than to be humble and confess he did something foolish (and dangerous) and got caught doing it.

45. Gringo Says:
    May 18th, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    I don’t see the point of stopping someone for failing to put on a turn signal.”

    You may not see the point, but it is done regularly for failing to signal an actual turn. I have been pulled over for it. And then let go.

46. “OKBecky Says:
    May 21st, 2018 at 1:36 am

    I don’t know how many people caught that the Rev failed to signal a LEFT turn. That is more hazardous…”

    I did not. And you are right.

47. Gringo says,

    “I am reminded of getting a ticket for walking across a red light at 3 a.m. in Oakland with no traffic in sight ( except for the officer behind me). I consider that a chickens*** ticket. Perhaps you don’t.”

    In that case I agree. And it can be highly,provoking.

    Received a citation in N.C. for not having a vehicle inspection sticker on my car. After the car was classified as a year old, you needed to get one. Registration and insurance were in order, and I had paid the 400 plus car import property tax or whatever it was they were charging you to bring or have your car in the state at the time.

    I pointed out to the officer the car was only one model year old and should not need a sticker. She pointed out I had owned it 13 months. I pointed out that I had not even been in the state more than 8 months. She said it didn’t matter and I could contest it in court. I truthfully said I was just back in the state for a couple of days; having already given up my apartment and would be leaving town for good within a week.

    She replied that I could either pay a fine or attend drivers education classes commencing in about two weeks.

    I thanked her, and then told NC to piss off, and left.

    12 or 15 years later, state databases were connected (thank you Muslim terrorists) , and the puzzled clerk at the DMV informed me that there was a hold on my renewal. She was unable to figure out why. Then she discovered it did not originate in my state but was from another.

    “Did you have a commercial license in another state?” No

    After some period of research the Sec State informed me that I had to call a number in NC. The number was always busy, and when the menu was reached nothing made sense.

    After months of trying I finally talked to someone

    She said North Carolina wanted their 50 dollars.

    I had loved the countryside in N.C. And I liked the average folks of the state, though they could not compare with Texans, and seemed to live in a more socially stratified and less optimistic environment.

    But it’s hard to express the rage I felt at N.C.s pathetic rule-the-peasant bureaucrat mentality and parasite pettiness, so I won’t.

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