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Robert Stacy McCain at The American Spectator: The Dangerous Delusion of ‘Equality’

Joe got pulled over by a cop in Portage County, Wisconsin, and could have gotten off with a mere traffic ticket — or perhaps just a warning — but he was defiant, looking for trouble. If you’ve watched a lot of police body camera videos on YouTube (it’s a hobby of mine), you’ve become familiar with this scenario, the routine traffic stop that “escalates,” sometimes fatally. It often begins with a motorist’s refusal to give the officer a driver’s license, proceeding to the demand that the officer summon a supervisor, etc. Joe ended up in handcuffs in the back of a squad car, charged with assault and other crimes, adding to his already lengthy history of run-ins with the law.

Your rights are not being violated by a traffic stop. Or, if they are, it is not the time or the place to adjudicate them on the side of the road. It won't end in your favor, even if - or maybe especially if - you're right. If you think your rights have been violated, then get the bodycam and dashcam video later, and sue. Good Luck with that. "You can't fight City Hall."

Real injustice and actual oppression are not so rare that they can be ignored, but the Cult of Equality conjures up imaginary victimhood — “heteronormative patriarchy,” “structural racism,” “systemic transphobia,” blah blah blah — to seduce its gullible followers into a delusional rage.

This is a medium-long article, that covers the Left's cult of equity, roadside-legal disputes, and more. Grab a coffee and settle in.

Hat tip to Robert Stacy over at The Other McCain - This Is Joe. Don’t Be Like Joe.

Why do some fools get the idea that a traffic stop is a good time to hold an impromptu hearing about their constitutional rights?

For a fairly funny example of when a traffic stop went south in a hurry see my post What Cops Have to Deal With. Rich Hy, better known as Angry Cops, breaks down one of these videos of a traffic stop that turned into "herding cracked-out cats."