{"id":6476,"date":"2011-09-26T10:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2011-09-26T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:46:45","slug":"sometimes-logic-simply-does-not-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6476","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Logic Simply Does Not Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Massachusetts_State_House_2007.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Massachusetts State House in Boston, MA.\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6a\/Massachusetts_State_House_2007.JPG\/300px-Massachusetts_State_House_2007.JPG\" alt=\"The Massachusetts State House in Boston, MA.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewspaper.com\/news\/35\/3592.asp\">thenewspaper.com<\/a>\u00a0reported the following last Thursday:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Motorists issued a traffic ticket in Massachusetts will have to pay money to the state whether or not they committed the alleged crime. According to a state supreme court ruling handed down yesterday, fees are to be imposed even on those found completely innocent. The high court saw no injustice in collecting $70 from Ralph C. Sullivan after he successfully fought a $100 ticket for failure to stay within a marked lane.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Wow. We don&#8217;t care if you are innocent or guilty, we are still going to collect your money!<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Bay State drivers given speeding tickets and other moving violations have twenty days either to pay up or make a non-refundable $20 payment to appeal to a clerk-magistrate. After that, further challenge to a district court judge can be had for a non-refundable payment of $50. Sullivan argued that motorists were being forced to pay &#8220;fees&#8221; not assessed on other types of violations, including drug possession. He argued this was a violation of the Constitution&#8217;s Equal Protection clause, but the high court justices found this to be reasonable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>This is amazing&#8211;even in Massachusetts<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=6f2ad03d-cfaf-473a-8130-2bab09d7ca32\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website called thenewspaper.com\u00a0reported the following last Thursday: Motorists issued a traffic ticket in Massachusetts will have to pay money to the state whether or not they committed the alleged crime. According to a state supreme court ruling handed down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=6476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,605,604,603],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-massachusetts","tag-moving-violation","tag-state-supreme-court","tag-traffic-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6485,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}