jmra wrote:My take as an ordinary citizen.
The OP stated he had been pulled over 3 times in the last 9 months. In the OP he only told us about one of the stops (may have mentioned the others later - I'm not sure). It would be interesting to hear about the other two stops.
We are all required to carry valid proof of insurance. OP dropped the ball on that one. That being said, I have a problem with the stop. In fact, I think I have a problem with officers randomly running plates but that's what we get when we are only a gnats hair away from a police state.
Back to the stop - its one thing if the cop runs the plate and the car comes back stolen or there is a warrant on the person the car is registered to, but to pull them over because the system doesn't have a record of insrance sounds like something you would expect from a full blown police state.
We lost a whole lot more on 9/11 than 3000 lives - we lost our rights, our freedom, our America.