Posted on 09/23/2002 9:26:36 AM PDT by Asmodeus
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:57:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The speed camera "experiment" begun a few months ago could be about to expand into a city-wide grid of cameras
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Consequently, like many locals, I have vowed NEVER to drive into DC and take the Metro.
A POX on all their houses.
Ignoring, for the moment, the outrageous organized criminal enterprise being imposed on the DC motorists, I would like to point out that this is the first time that I have ever seen the word "mulct" used in print. Have to file that away for use in Scrabble sometime...
Gotta hand it to them, those government shepherds sure know how to herd the sheep.
That's EXACTLY what they want with this tax; no cars other than the official cars running the apparatchnik around. Polarized license plate covers are so much better.
What's really funny is the sheeple are actually paying (via taxes) and allowing the government to spy on them and track every movement they make. Then they ask - "How can this be happening?"
I'll tell ya how it's happening:
You are getting the government YOU deserve !!!
Don't you mean the clone of Carol Browner? Seriously, they're setting up the highways to become a carbon-copy of Soviet-era Moscow.
Back in the old days, you could take your horse or your boat just about anywhere they could go as fast as they could. Then, cars came along, and that begat speed limits and registration, which trickled down to boats, even unpowered canoes (horses had quickly disappeared). After that, planes came along, and enforcement of the speed limits in the sky became automatic with the implementation of transponders that tell the FAA (the cops of the sky) just how fast you're going without them having to interpret radar. That's starting to trickle down to cars.
Almost every congressperson violates their oath of office on a monthly basis. Same for high-ranking alphabet agency bureaucrats. It's only "breaking the law" when it's out-of-power "peasants" being accused. Whatever harm is done by the millions of people that speed is trivial compared to the amount of harm done by a few thousand parasitical-politicians and self-serving bureaucrats.
The truth/honesty always outlives the lie/dishonesty. It always has and always will. The bigger the lie the bigger the crash. This latest Big Brother Camera mulct of motorists is but one aspect of the leviathan government lie. As is the WOD and voting for the lesser of two evils but two other aspects of the leviathan government lie. It's a global scourge. The crash to end all crashes. One wave after another will wash it away.
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In each person's life internal authority takes precedence over external authority. That some people choose to sacrifice their own authority to external authority is always a net negative/loss to themselves and society.
Most people have had the external-authority hoax foisted on them. The individual is the highest authority. Real power that increases health, well being, happiness and prosperity is owned by creative businesspersons and the productive working class.
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Congress has created so many laws that virtually every person is assured of breaking more than just traffic laws. Surely with all this supposed lawlessness people and society should have long ago run head long into destruction. But it has not.
Instead, people and society have progressively prospered. Doing so despite politicians creating on average, 3,000 new laws each year which self-serving alphabet-agency bureaucrats implement/utilize to justify their usurped power and unearned paychecks. They both proclaim from on high -- with complicit endorsement from the media and academia -- that all those laws are "must-have" laws to thwart people and society from running headlong into self-destruction.
Again, despite not having this year's 3,000 must-have laws people and society increased prosperity for years and decades prior. How can it be that suddenly the people and the society they form has managed to be so prosperous for so long but suddenly they will run such great risk of destroying their self-created prosperity? Three hundred new laws each year is overkill, but 3,000 is, well, it's insane.
Politics is not the solution, it's the problem. Honest business and science is the solution. It has always been the solution.
War of Two Worlds
Value Creators versus Value Destroyers
The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.
Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.
Keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. ...Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today.
Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a capitalist market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.
Any government agency that is a value to people and society -- which there are but a few -- could much more effectively serve people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.
Wake up! They are the parasites. We are the host. We don't need them. They need us.
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