reason.com:  “In April 2008, The Orange County Register published a bombshell of an investigation about a license plate program for California government workers and their families.  Drivers of nearly 1 million cars and light trucks—out of a total 22 million vehicles registered statewide—were protected by a ‘shield’ in the state records system between their license plate numbers and their home addresses.  There were, the newspaper found, great practical benefits to this secrecy.  ‘Vehicles with protected license plates can run through dozens of intersections controlled by red light cameras with impunity,’ the Register’s Jennifer Muir reported.  “’Parking citations issued to vehicles with protected plates are often dismissed because the process necessary to pierce the shield is too cumbersome.  Some patrol officers let drivers with protected plates off with a warning because the plates signal that drivers are ‘one of their own’ or related to someone who is’. . . .”

Exempting themselves from traffic laws in the name of a threat that no longer exists is bad enough, but what government workers do to the rest of us on a daily basis makes ticket dodging look like child’s play. Often under veils of illegal secrecy, public-sector unions and their political allies are systematically looting the public treasury with gold-plated pensions, jeopardizing the finances of state and local governments around the country, removing themselves from legal accountability, and doing it all in the name of humble working men and women just looking for their fair share. Government employees have turned themselves into a coddled class that lives better than its private-sector counterpart, and with more impunity.  The public’s servants have become our masters.

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