Lens of Liberty

I was driving from Lancaster, PA to York this evening via Route 30 and I get behind a car doing 60mph in the left hand lane. After a few minutes I say to my wife “OK, at some point shouldn’t you realize that you should pull back into the right lane?” About that time another car comes up behind me, pulls into the right lane and passes both of us. When the second gets along side the first, suddenly that car speeds up to 75. I know everyone has seen this scene play out hundreds of times. This one had a slightly different ending, however. After a minute or so, the guy in front of me in the left lane reaches up and puts a light on his car and proceeds to pull over the guy trying to pass.
Yes, the guy was speeding. It was a 55mph zone and he attempted to pass on the right doing about 65. But the cop was clearly trying to goad someone into passing him. Virtually no one does 55 on that stretch of Route 30, so by sitting in the left lane doing 60 he was just waiting for someone to get impatient and pass. Second, once the guy tried to pass at 65, the cop slowly sped up to 75, which of course caused his target to also speed up.

Now you tell me, isn’t this entrapment? Is this cop really making the highways safer? By driving like an idiot trying to play on the impatience of other drivers, isn’t he making the roads more dangerous?

Use of such underhanded tactics shouldn’t be allowed. But of course the guy who got caught probably won’t fight it because it’s just not worth it, which is exactly what the cop is counting on.

A member of Campaign for Liberty was removed by police for asking about the Constitutional basis for a national health care program. Unfortunately there was no fists thrown, no swastikas, and no tasers so you probably won’t hear this mentioned by the people who want to frame all opposition to the proposed legislation as extremists.

You can read a first hand account of the entire event at Campaign for Liberty.