If they weren't writing tickets, they'd have to raise taxes to fund the police.
Interestingly, no one runs for election on the notion of reforming the police to avoid OPDEC.

In Al Gore?

Happy to show you all the evidence you like. But first: how does one go about presenting evidence of a z-axis to someone whose thinking is mired in a Cartesian plane?

I find out the most amazing things from reading your replies.

Wait, I thought you were an Evolution supporter, or are you denying that and climate change in one swell foop, thou great curmudgeon?

No, no: the burden of proof sits with the accuser. Remind me not to hire you as a lawyer.

Oh, come on: you told me we're all carnivorous meat, incapable of change.

I mean, if I were less credulous, I might think that the Progressive Project was all a big scam to skew the ratio of elected representatives in favor of a vast bureaucracy that was servant to a small number of oligarchs.
If only there were some. . .document. . .some legal piece of paper. . .that could have ensured better checks and balances, and kept the government a legitimate servant of the people. Such a document would have to be kept as clear and simple as the U.S. Constitution to have even a chance at success, however.

You never conclusively proved the idolatry, which would be a sin. Are you trying to go with a 'soft fear' play here?

Got anything more than a smear to back that, Pap? When have I, personally, ever behaved so?

By your own materialistic arguments, there is no 2%. Keep on jokin'.

If you like your trusted computing, you can keep your trusted computing.

I love the smell of your objectivity claims in the evening. It smells like. . .my toddler needs a change.

No, what's really afoot here is the mismatch between the U.S. Constitution as written, and the post-Industrial Revolution world, when the Atlantic Ocean ain't no moat no mo'.
I'm pretty confident that Isolationism no worky-worky, but Interventionism has also been shown to be kinda bust.
What to do?

Are you giving me the Full Damn_Registrars here?
I may have ventured into occasional hyperbole for comic effect, sir, but Let Me Be Perfectly Clear: I'm not wasting anyone's time by being less than honest about anything. So if you're accusing me of being a fear merchant, we can cease communications.
If you're making a general point about the full spectrum of "christianity", then sure: you can trivially find any example of any perversion under the sun.
Accusing me of being a fear merchant is exactly the same thing as saying that all Muslims are terrorists, based upon the madness of a fraction of the lot.

Nice. Speaking of covers, how about Soundgarden doing Devo?