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Health & Fitness

Murrieta's Red-Light Cameras

The red-light camera issue should be the litmus test for the candidates running for the Murrieta City Council.

In the Bill of Rights, the 8th Amendment states that:

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel nor unusal punishments inflicted".

It is my understanding that the citation issued for a traffic violation reported by red-light cameras is approximately $500. For a retired person that earns $600 to $800 of Social Security they will be paying nearly 90 percent of their monthly income. I think that the amendment was written into the Constitution to prevent the abuse of power that the Murrieta City Council is currently promoting.

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Thomas Jefferson and the founders would be ashamed of our current City Council for their disregard for the Constitution and the principles of liberty and individual responsibility.

Has our City Council forgotten that the government was created to protect the rights of the people, not to micro manage of our lives. There are two kinds of people in public service; those that preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and those that do not.

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Many politicians say whatever they need to say to get elected and then do whatever they believe if for the greater good of the greater number. This quote was not attributed to Thomas Jefferson or any other of our Founding Fathers; it was a quote from Karl Marx.

Don't pay any attention to what politicians say, just take a good close look at how they vote and you will be able to separate the Patriot Defenders of Our Liberty and those that are only masquerading as though they were.

The members of the Murrieta City Council that have supported the use of the red-light cameras in Murrieta worship the Constitution with their lips but their refusal to honor their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, reveals who they really are.

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