Oh good, new and improved remote surveillance for traffic infractions! We all need to be watched much more by our government, because we’re all dangerous scofflaws. From Eric Peters, on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:
You are nothing but sheep to be fleeced by the government and their police thugs. Every state, locality, and municipality in this country is essentially bankrupt due to their unfunded pension and health benefit liabilities to the millions of government drones who make your life miserable on a daily basis. Their solution is to abscond with more of your hard earned cash. This story below should outrage you. The government drones think it’s a huge success.
Guest Post by Eric Peters
You’ve heard about the automated car.
How about automated policing?
Instead of government drones (that would be cops) picking our pockets at gunpoint, the “work” (and profit) is being turned over to private contractors, who do the same at camera-point, using debt collectors to force us to stand and deliver.
This is not new – but it is becoming more blatant.
If you ever had any doubt that the issuance of speeding tickets was little more than another form of tax collection, consider what’s going on in Youngstown, Ohio.
The recently city signed a three-year deal with one of those Mussolini-minded companies that uses government to line its pockets and calls it free enterprise (another example of this being the insurance mafia). The company is going to make a lot of money by peppering the city with automated radar guns that eliminate the need for a cop to actually pull someone over – or for the courts to waste their valuable time proving beyond a reasonable doubt that each and every “speeder” is guilty as charged.
Instead, the tickets – the fines – go out automatically.
And because they are no longer issued under the guise of law enforcement, you lose the right you’d otherwise have to confront the witnesses against you (i.e., a cop) and the formality, at least, that you are presumed innocent until adjudicated guilty (or not) in a court rather than presumed guilty by a privately run company that will ruin your credit score if you decline to pay – whether it was actually you behind the wheel or not that day.
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