Every one is equal, but some are more equal than others...

That is essentially the message Billy Allen Fletcher is trying to send. He has authored a bill in the State Legislature that would exempt public employees from getting red light camera tickets, even if they run the light while not responding to an emergency with lights flashing.

I am certainly not a huge fan of RLC's. I think they are nothing more than a money grab and have nothing at all to do with safety. If it was about safety, lengthening yellow light times and adding an all-way red interval has been shown repeatedly to significantly lower accident rates. RLC studies here in Houston have not shown any such reduction. But having said that, who in hell thinks that cops or ambulance drivers or bus drivers are above the law? I thought that the whole point of the Rule of Law was that it applied equally to every one. Look, If a cop or an ambulance or a fire truck is on an emergency run, they need to have their lights on at least. There is no situation where a cop or an ambulance driver or a fireman without lights flashing should be violating traffic laws, especially when someone's life might be endangered by doing so. I can think of NO INSTANCE where a bus driver or a city worker should be allowed to break traffic laws.

Billy Allen Fletcher needs his head examined if you ask me.