Subject: Buck(l)ing the system: (from the buzz column of The Press.) Larry Angel, a terror to rural Mullica elected officials, recently set his aim higher. In the latest episode, he said Galloway Township police and municipal court officials turned him away when he tried to sign a seat belt complaint against New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine. The ticket would result in a $46 fine for a guilty party. It does not require a court appearance. Corzine was badly injured April 12 when a car he was riding in crashed on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. It is believed his injuries were worse because he didn’t wear a seat belt. “As a democrat who voted for Corzine for the Senate and then for governor, I still feel he is culpable in not wearing his seat belt,” Angel wrote in an e-mail to The Press of Atlantic City. He called it “an arrogant abuse of his position of power.” He said he believes most people think a ticket would have been written to lesser person long before. Angel concluded, “We all make bad decisions at times ... The test of adulthood is owning them, one would hope.”
RESPONSE: GadFly notes that the police have discretion in terms of deciding whether to write a traffic summons in all cases...with the exception of DWI...however, the State is not served when the perception is that those in positions of power are treated advantageously by law enforcement. Laws are ‘of the people and by the people’ and we all have the Constitutional right when one feels that the laws are not being addressed fairly, to sign Complaints.
The statue of Justice is blindfolded as a symbol that laws are enforced impartially...that Lady Justice does not peek, to see how thick one’s wallet is or the color of one’s skin. Given the minor nature of the fine for not wearing a seat belt the State Police do a disservice to us all in not citing the Governor...as such inaction allows the perception of special treatment. It is further noted that the following day a seat belt ticket was signed by larry THE MISANTHROPIC PEDANTIC S.O.B. angel with the cooperation of Galloway officials.
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