Traffic fines -everyday CLASS injustice !

            I read in the POLICE LOG this morning about a man being arrested

    at his home for accumulating traffic fines. Panic stricken, the POOR man

    resisted arrest, crying for his family - and thereby making matters worse

    for himself in a legal system - especially Rhode Island Traffic Court! -

    best described by Franz Kafka.

              Now the man might in many ways be unworthy of the respect of

    respectable people. Being rather unrespectable myself in the eyes of

    the traffic court - not owning a car, it can't get me in its clutches -

    I do have a measure of sympathy for this man - even if he is stupid,reckless,

    and irresponsible.

                In the nature of things the LAW does not punish rich and poor

    equally. Fining a blue collar guy $200 for speeding is not EQUAL to fining

    Joan Kennedy a little more for speeding AND drunken driving.

                 One loses his weekly paycheck, the other loses lunch money !

            Why not consider weekly income in determining traffic fines ?

         Again and again the REAL issue in everyday strife is CLASS.

          Take it from a guy who has none of it !