Is the law system corrupt everywhere?

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In the last week alone, I've had to deal with the Queensland Police telling me two different things about my type of license. This post could be long-winded, but here's the short intro: We have 4 stages of driver license before you are "Open" licensed;

L Plates (Learners)
P1 (Provisional Level 1)
P2 (Provisional Level 2)
Open (C or CA Class)

I was pulled over and stopped for a strip-search of me and my car last Friday, and I was told that I had an "Open" C Class. I get "radar-ed" down doing 15 km/h (approx 10 mph) over the speed limit the next day and I'm told I have a P2 license, and get booked for speeding AND not displaying P2 plates, when my physical license card says I'm on an Open C Class.

I get screwed around by our lovely law enforcement telling me it's the governments fault, so I go to the transport department (DMV for USA readers) and they tell me I'm on a P2 license, but don't state why. It seems very strange that I get told two very different things about my license in two days.

I've used my right to have my fines heard in court, but I think that the judicial system in all states of Australia is rigged to make money. And lots of it. This country and all states are in big debt, and this just seems like a revenue raising trick to make more money. Is this the case, and, if so,is it like this all over the world? Courts and Justice revolving around the cash flow?

What is Justice? 3
All Judicial Systems are Designed to Make Money 9
Yes! 6
Could Be, Depends on The Chief Justice 1
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  • pixie_dust
    9 years ago

    WOW! I am an American, and I had no idea that Australia's system was so f'd up! OMG.. What gypsysailor said seems so, just, asinine. It's interesting how my education and understanding of Australia has been completely sheltered from this. If it weren't for the internet, I wouldn't get this information from the regular people that is a lot more reliable than what you hear on the media and even in school. A life sentence for pot?? WTH? The real reason the government does this is bcuz SOMEBODY benefits from the price of the pot skyrocketing due to the risk of providing it. Because obviously people that smoke pot aren't such a public nuisance that it's worse than murderers.

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago

    When I lived in Qland, they passed a law that made the possession of the tiniest bit of pot a life sentence, but murder was only 7 years. All the cops went nuts, saying that it would be better for the criminals to kill them and plead guilty rather than get caught with some pot. Australia is still pretty much a 3rd world country, with that backward prison colony mentality, masquerading as a modern beacon of civilization. Not too many bright bulbs in office there.

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    • dickheadalert
      9 years ago

      No bright bulbs. Nothing has really changed. Bikie laws are very similar to that, wearing colours of any kind land you in Woodford Correctional Bed and Breakfast with a pink jumpsuit. Oh, and lets not forget that smoking is now banned in all prisons in QLD....

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  • poon_jabber
    9 years ago

    hell

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  • Something_Recognizable.
    9 years ago

    I just walk.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    they dont even understand it , stinks

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  • My02cents
    9 years ago

    If you really want to experience a money racket involving the judicial system, then come to South Africa !!

    Everything is SO corrupt here, you won`t believe it.

    Judges and Lawyers work together to postpone courtcases multiple times and the only one who benefits from it,are the lawyers. ( Think of Oscar Pistorius ? )

    The Chief Justice was also charged with interfering in a case (State vs Zuma ..President) ..and nothing became of it. He is still the Chief Justice.

    The only justice system that really works fine here, is the Mob justice or Kangaroo court system.

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  • WolfDog
    9 years ago

    I REALLY hope you didn't consent to the searches.

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    • pixie_dust
      9 years ago

      Other countries don't have the same guaranteed freedoms as the USA, so such a thing can't be contested.

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      • WolfDog
        9 years ago

        I'm actually from Queensland, here they need either a court order, or reasonable grounds to search (sniffer dog reaction/saw drugs), both need a paper trail so you can see if they were in the wrong.

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        • pixie_dust
          9 years ago

          oh, well that is a good thing.

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    • dickheadalert
      9 years ago

      I had no choice. They told me they were searching my car and me. I tried to tell them I didn't consent, but they carried on anyway. Very Queensland.

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    When I lived down under (Australia-ACT), I had the same impression you have. In the US, however, courts are more motivated by cost savings. They'll plea bargain on anything just to free up the judicial workload.

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