Another catch 22 traffic situation

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I drive amongst some of the rudest most unethical people in the USA here in Memphis, TN. And today I get a ticket for making an unsafe lane change. What is an unsafe lane change? Well that's just about any lane change you'll ever make in the city.

I sped up and got a car length ahead of the driver so I could get in the left hand lane at the stop light. I had my blinker on for over 400 yards as I made the maneuver. I asked the officer if he would have cited me if I had slowed down to 10mph to let the long line of cars go first and then made the lane change if that would have been an unsafe lane change in his view. To which he replied, that would also be unsafe. So I said the bottom line is that I can't make my lane when I come of this interstate to go home. He stammered and said, "Well sometimes they don't even let me in the lane I need to get in." Then he went on to say I should go a mile down the road. I said there would always be traffic. We're in the downtown area. Then he tried to tell me not to be driving at this time.

Then I asked him about passing on the right. His view was that the person passing on the right has the right of way. At first I thought inner city Memphians were just rude but then I realized that they don't even follow the first standard American road rule. If you want to pass, go around on the left. I've cussed about people passing me on the right ever since I got to this town, but to hear a police officer tell me that the person passing on the right had the right of way just took it to another level for me. Why don't they admit what it really was? With all the African Americans obeying no road rules, generally speeding to pass to people on the shoulder as they talk on their cell phones, much less offering any courtesy, we had to find something wrong with the token white man daring to use their road. Perhaps it wasn't as much about race as it was about the ridiculous racket this corrupt city government is engaged in. Whatever it was, it sure wasn't about making the road safer or enforcing any objective rule. The entire definition of the infraction was all based on the officer's opinion.

And who do I have to blame for this ridiculous fee I'm going to pay? Myself. I blame myself because I am too weak to fight and overcome a sovereign blatantly mistreating those who are subjected to living under his rule. A majority can trample a man's rights just as much as any king. I blame my own race for allowing ourselves to be outbred and basically made foreigners in our own land. When you don't have any might, you don't have any rights.

My lawyer said it best when he said, "Most Americans will never meet a worse enemy than their own government." One of these days, a long time from now, perhaps they will have long forgotten why I was even pissed off, the prey is going to become the predator.