[Porsche-O-Phile]

Even though you're right you're wrong. Welcome to the wonderful world of revenue generation - where laws and government accountability to the people it supposedly serves does not exist.

The reality is the US has become as corrupt as Mexico or soviet Russia with respect to using cars and traffic as a way of extorting money from the public. There is little or no legitimacy to any of it but the reality is if you want to drive, you simply accept the fact that occasionally you will be required to pay up regardless of whether or not you're in the right.

I'm as pissed as you are about the fact that a major part of peoples lives is so blatantly tied into flagrantly unconstitutional behavior but until someone starts demanding change in the state legislatures (which will never happen because it would alienate all the boo-boo nanny-state safety nazis) it will continue. Just a part of life, much like carrying a little envelope with some currency under the seat is/was in many other countries...