It's Cameras All The Way Down
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. ·
September 14, 2012 at 4:33pm
The Washington Post reports that a local county is mounting cameras to monitor its traffic cameras.
As David Freddoso writes, "Anyone notice the slight problem with this plan?"
Either way, the camera plan was hatched after some patriot(s) in Prince George's County shot a camera with a gun and set another on fire.
These cameras might raise all sorts of safety and civil liberty concerns, but they are huge moneymakers for the county. Sigh.
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Nov '11
Re: It's Cameras All The Way Down
Oh, Mollie. You're always the one to take the fight to the enemy.
On one hand, I admire the spirit of a free people willing to shoot, burn and otherwise pillage governmental cameras.
On the other hand, I have a general dislike of destroying property, even public property.
On the third hand, I know that if it goes on, the heroes of the people who did the vandalism, if they were to continue, would only see the state ratchet things up. The state will always win in a such a contest, because it has the men with the guns. It can only end with a boot stamping on a human face forever.
Mar '11
Re: It's Cameras All The Way Down
While I conceed KP's point about bad drivers, and there are certainly extremes out there in the world (has anyone ever tried to drive in Rome? I swear the traffic lights are only decorative there.....), I share Mollie's outlook here.
There an incipient fascism in getting a 100 dollar ticket for an insufficenintly long 'rolling stop', while taking a right on red that endangered no one and which no sensible police officer would stop traffic to pull you over for.
Traffic laws ought to exist to keep the roadways safe, not as a nickel and dime way to control every aspect of a citizen's daily life, or raise ever more revenue for a locality to waste.
Dec '10
Re: It's Cameras All The Way Down
I was thinking about something along these lines this morning. We use taxes as a behavioral modifier and punishment instead of as a revenue source while we use things like traffic law enforcement as a revenue source rather than as a behavioral modifier and punishment. We've so inverted things I fear we'll never get it straight again.
Jan '11
Re: It's Cameras All The Way Down
The King Prawn
I was thinking about something along these lines this morning. We use taxes as a behavioral modifier and punishment instead of as a revenue source while we use things like traffic law enforcement as a revenue source rather than as a behavioral modifier and punishment. We've so inverted things I fear we'll never get it straight again. · 2 hours ago
Bingo.
Apr '11
Re: It's Cameras All The Way Down
The King Prawn
I was thinking about something along these lines this morning. We use taxes as a behavioral modifier and punishment instead of as a revenue source while we use things like traffic law enforcement as a revenue source rather than as a behavioral modifier and punishment. We've so inverted things I fear we'll never get it straight again. · 2 hours ago
Profound and true, King Prawn.
Oct '10
Re: It's Cameras All The Way Down
For more information on this topic, goto, "TheNewspaper.com."
Covers the legal issues of driving in the U.S and provides clear data on just how corrupt the redlight programs are, both in the States and Overseas. Well worth the time and unsettling.