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[Juliana Dutra <kila01 AT yahoo.com>]

Let's say you're drivin' along the highways and byways
of America.. and everyone on the interstate is goin'
ten, twenty miles an hour over the speed limit. So..
you do it, too. Then you see the highway patrol car
two seconds too late, and you are nailed, say, doin'
85 in a 65. Speedin' ain't the worse thing you can do
when you're drivin'. Drunk drivin', runnin' a stop
sign, there's lots..that's worse. But the trooper
pulled you.. for speedin'.

When the cop walks over, you can complain that
everyone was speedin', that you were just goin' with
the pace o' the road, you know, that if you went the
speed limit, then you'd actually cause problems for
the traffic. And, hey, look at those cars goin' by -
they're speedin' worse than you. Every cop has heard
it before. And that cop knows: there's a law - the
speed limit. And you're either breaking or you're not.
You may lie, finagle, or cajole the cop into walkin'
away, but you broke the law, no matter what you may
think about the law. Sometimes it works - you get away
with no ticket, no points, nothin'. But if you drive
enough, you will meet that by the book [uy] who will
have that citation written before you get a word out
of your lying mouth.

Now, let's say you've got a dead hobo stuffed with
baggies of heroin stashed in your trunk. And the cop
wants you to step out so he can search the vehicle.
First of all, you have learned a valuable lesson: if
you've got a hobo corpse stashed in the trunk, do not
speed. 

But now you've only got a couple of choices left to
you: you can try to whack the cop or you can run. But
either way, at this point, you are [doomed]. Once the
trunk is popped and the stench of rotting hobo hits
the cop before the visual, you are finished. And,
really, there's no one to blame but your
hobo-killin'-drug-transportin' [arse] that just had to
speed once too often.

Remember: politics is criminalized when criminals get
into politics.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/10/law-breaking-for-rest-of-us-lets-say.html