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They just started up one of these cameras on my block in Va. Beach just last week. My wife and I laughed as we passed by the city crews digging up the intersection and installing the camera posts, because it has been known for a couple of months that they were likely to get yanked in the current legislative session.

I have a big problem with being convicted and sentenced for a crime with no proof that I was even at the scene of the crime. City leaders come out with the "it's all for the common good" argument, when all they are worried about is the extra $$$ generated that they can share with their shady developer friends.

1 posted on 02/05/2005 5:46:58 AM PST by flair2000
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Why does the article say that "public safety suffered" a loss? I haven't seen a camera yet that stopped a speeding car or one that ran a red light. The stories about these things taking pictures of cars "clearing the intersection" on a left turn, and departments shortening yellows to make more money are legion.


2 posted on 02/05/2005 5:50:49 AM PST by sittnick (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: flair2000
My liberty interests in the Commonwealth demand that the folks who operate the public roads system do everything they can to make them safe.

Redlight running dope dealers and Democrats from the District of Columbia and Maryland make our roads particularly unsafe in Fairfax County.

The only way Morgan Griffith, chairman of that committee, could have arrived at the conclusion that we have to let those people run hoga$$ed wild thorugh our streets without penalty would be if he sold out to the union bosses and liberal pressure groups like NARAL, NEA, and NOW.

May he rot in Hell! And the same for all his liberalcompsymp running dog lackeys and syncophants.

3 posted on 02/05/2005 5:55:30 AM PST by muawiyah (tag line removed)
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The guvmint is only there to hep you.


4 posted on 02/05/2005 6:01:57 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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7 posted on 02/05/2005 6:57:59 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: flair2000

Michele B. McQuigg is deeply saddened.

Just another useless RINO getting a clue!


8 posted on 02/05/2005 7:22:25 AM PST by brianl703 (Border crossing is a misdemeanor. So is drunk driving. Which do we have more checkpoints for?)
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To: flair2000

While in the Air Force, we used to run what was called "selective enforcement", that is, traffic radar. The entire difference back then ('80's) was you had to use your judgement, training and experience to first estimate that the operator was in fact speeding an how fast they were traveling. THEN you confirmed your estimate with the RADAR.

The RADAR was and still should be a tool to confirm or deny an officer's observations.


15 posted on 02/06/2005 4:33:28 AM PST by X-USAF
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18 posted on 02/06/2005 5:56:17 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. M.Steyn)
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To: flair2000
Our local paper has been making a full court press to get red light cameras approved in Alabama. There is a serious problem with folks running red light, but I don’t think cameras are the answer.

Check the bleeding heart language in this story: Wreck injures doctor, practice

21 posted on 02/06/2005 6:42:34 AM PST by TankerKC (The Media turn each tactical victory for insurgents into a strategic victory for terrorists.)
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