https://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/fort-pierce/semi-truck-driver-arrested-after-crash-killed-3-on-floridas-turnpike-in-fort-pierce
This story touches on so multiple aspects of the immigration debate.
1. Assimilation. As you watch the video of the driver and passenger, you see no emotion at all that their driving caused this accident. Why? It seems likely that these idiots simply brought their driving habits from India to the US with no thought to whether or not those habits are accepted in the US, let alone legal. The reality seems to be that many recent immigrants want to come to the US to selfishly benefit, with no real desire or intent of assimilation. In short, they want to impose their culture on the US, even if it means that people die.
2. DFL malfeasance. That CA gave this guy a CDL when he clearly did not know how US traffic laws and practices worked, which allowed him to drive across the country is simply unacceptable. The CA DOT bears some degree of responsibility for these deaths. If I was the victim's family, I'd look long and hard at suing the CA DOT for wrongful death.
3. Respect for human life. The driver's reaction to the crash shows no emotion or concern fro human life. This could be related to a couple of things. First, many third world countries do not place the same value on human life as countries like the US. Second, religions like Hinduism do not place a high valueon human life either. In any case, I suspect that this guy was surprised when he was charged with this killing because he doesn't think he did anything wrong (driving) nor does he think that the lives of his victims had any particular value.
https://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/fort-pierce/semi-truck-driver-arrested-after-crash-killed-3-on-floridas-turnpike-in-fort-pierce
"Traffic is a perfect system for understanding immigration. Being a polite driver is not self-interested behavior. One can often go a bit faster by being antisocial. In much of the world, traffic looks like the right. Because most people will not personally sacrifice to maintain a prosocial system. Our traffic systems, our parks and common areas, our jury trials, and much of what is special about western society rests on this type of prosocial altruism (non-kin fairness). When a population falls too low on this attribute, everything decent falls apart."
https://x.com/i/status/1956482322020381172
Video of the crash from the camera in the cab.
3 comments:
I did not see anything involving the suspect driver in the videos, but only the picture of the one said to be him at the top of the article. I don't know when that was taken in relation to the tragedy, so I'm loath to presume anything about his potential lack of regard for the victims of his bad driving.
Everything else, however, is spot on. I'm particularly angered at the prospect of California Department of Transportation licensing ANY illegal alien. When I got my CDL in Illinois, not so long after most of a pastor's family burned alive in a crash after some hunk of metal fell of his trailer in highway traffic. As such, the facility though which I would eventually get my CDL, and which as I understand it, was the very facility through which the driver in my story received his CDL, was especially strict about crossing "T"s an dotting "I"s. The governor of the state was imprisoned as a result of his part in allowing the free and easy issuance of licenses to those who would drive tractor trailers.
The same should happen in California, and to anyone in political office in that state who was involved in allowing the issuance to illegals to take place. It took me six to eight weeks of training to get my license (don't recall exactly, though I believe it was six). A variety of tests had to be passed at DOT facilities, just as anyone who wants a standard license must do for those. How could this buffoon not know he couldn't make a U-turn where it says not to make a U-turn? Was he simply willfully dismissing the sign as Dan dismisses Scripture he finds inconvenient? Maybe, in the dead of night, when there is no traffic, would a responsible driver consider making that U-turn at that location. Maybe.
There is a video floating around that is taken from a camera in the can focused on the driver and his passenger, which also shows the van being crushed by the truck. The demeanor of the driver almost seems like he's annoyed that someone hit him while he was doing his illegal U turn. If I can find it, I'll add it.
Having experienced how people drive in third world countries, I am convinced that the driver simply never bothered to adjust his driving style to the US. He simply assumed that he could do as he wished and it cost multiple lives.
This, again, is difficult. Is it better to deport him immediately and allow him to lice free in India, or throw him in prison and have US taxpayers footing the bill for his incarceration.
Obviously the family of the victims should sue both the trucking company and the state of CA for wrongful death.
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