THE JO-TEL … illegal blog downfield

On this installment of Hip E.'s corner, Hip E. attacks — you guessed it — religion.  

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Something I've been meaning to rant about for a long time is Sunday Parking.  Double Parking is illegal.  There are all kinds of places where it is illegal to park, and San Francisco and other cities rake in millions of dollars issuing citations for illegal parking.  I myself have paid at least a thousand dollars in parking tickets in my life.  Because of the amount of money parking infractions bring in, the city is completely on top of the parking situation.  If you park illegally for more than an hour or two in most neighborhoods, you ARE going to get a ticket.

There is one form of illegal parking, however, that you will not get a ticket for, and that is parking illegally within a block or two of any church on a Sunday.  People double park, blocking an entire lane of traffic.  People park on sidewalks and driveways.  And none of these people get tickets.  This is wrong.  Churches already don't pay taxes.  If they want their parishoners to drive to church on Sundays, they should use that free money to build a parking lot.  The Department of Parking and Traffic is responsible for keeping the streets clear and usable for ALL the citizens of San Francisco, tourists and motorists of any kind.  By looking the other way, they are degrading the services they provide to everyone else for the benefit of a tiny demographic of people who drive to church on Sundays, and the churches that benefit by their attendance.  This is immoral, unconstitutional, and unamerican, and it has to stop.  When I become police commissioner, I will have taskforces, committees, and paramilitary quick-response squads devoted to eradicating religion-based traffic congestion on weekends.  Let's give San Francisco's streets back to San Franciscans.

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