Thousands fighting for the right to travel in . . . Canada?

Or are they merely average, apolitical citizens fed up with ticket tyranny? Even if so, the numbers are thrilling!

Toronto is facing such a crippling backlog of challenges to parking tickets, reported the Toronto Star in August, that more than 73,000 citations from last year were still unresolved and that many cases were proceeding even less hurriedly. Mahmood-Reza Arab, a computer programmer who was ticketed for parking too close to a hydrant in 2005 and who has dutifully met all deadlines for making a proper challenge, was recently scheduled (again) for trial before a judge -- this month (September 2013). A spokesman said the "normal" wait time for a court date is "only" 18 months. [Toronto Star, 8-13-2013] 
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What IS this? Is freedom fever sweeping North America without giving me or any of my compatriots notice? If not, maybe situations like this will spark the truth and justice uprising we've been waiting for so very long, with every citizen making sure he knows at least the basics of law and rights.

I'd much rather it start in Dixie, but Toronto is in the "deep south" of Ontario province, after all.

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