James Fox

Our forefathers created the 14th Amendment to our Constitution in an attempt to insure every citizen's right to due process and equal protection under the law. In other words, under our Constitution, each and every one of you readers are legally entitled to fair and equal treatment by law enforcement. The ACLU gives lip service to this guarantee, but raises all sort of indignant objections to this, when government take steps to insure this equal treatment.

How many times have you sat fuming in your vehicle as a police officer writes you a speeding ticket, while dozens of cars speed by going as fast or faster than you were before he singled you out to ticket? Under the Constitution, every vehicle speeding by going faster than the speed limit, has to be pulled over and given a ticket, or your 14th Amendment rights have been violated. This same example applies to any other traffic law violation including parking in handicapped spaced, etc.

Now logic dictates that the L.A.P.D. or the Highway Patrol, both of which are way understaffed, under-equipped and operating on a reduced budget; cannot arrest every law-breaker on the streets and highways. However, to comply with the Constitution they must. If they do not, the ACLU should step in to insist that they punish none. This of course would allow total chaos. Everyone could drive anyway they chose with impunity. What a conundrum!

The answer, of course, is cameras. Cameras everywhere … at intersections, on freeway overpasses, in schools, even in churches. Actually with a constantly growing population and an ever-increasing crime rate, our law enforcement capabilities will never be able to cope.

Unfortunately, the ACLU is the loudest opponent to you receiving the fair and equal treatment you are entitled to. They place your personal privacy ahead of your constitutional guarantees. The only other loud opponents to cameras being used to insure that every law-breaker being caught by the cameras and punished equally, are the people who are probably busy breaking the laws on a daily basis. These people are the product of over 40 years of liberal indoctrination and have absolutely no respect for our legal system. They are the ones caught by the Media cameras looting and vandalizing property during our frequent riots. I have yet to hear that our liberal media has turned those photos of local people looting and breaking windows, over to the police, so they could be prosecuted and made to pay for their crimes.