Posted on 06/11/2007 2:27:22 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
Too many Mexicans. Take’m down.
Michigan AG says their illegal, wonder if TX AG will too?
You got that right!
It’s all about making cash from the motorist, the new government cashcow.
Texans need to purchase a lot of Tar & Feathers. (Send copies of the purchase orders to the director of the Texas Dept of Transportation.)
Think “kickbacks”, the companies that make these machines share in the revenue. Some well placed “lubrication” in the form of green pieces of paper with dead presidents on them and voila, constant surveillance police state America. What a brave new world we’re heading towards.
which generated £120 million (US $240 million) in revenue in 2003
One hopes the good people of Texas will make good use of their firearms and remove these nuisances from the public way.
But they’re going to use THIS against American citizens, Mexican guest workers are special.
They can do but can’t do a fence. Revenue indeed.
Texas, eh?
I wonder if these cameras are .270-proof?
I don’t doubt that they’ll be the subject of leisurely target practice. lol
I hope DoT is ready for some shot out cameras.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Remember, Perry has made it clear that he doesn't need the state pay raise that was authorized.
“I wonder if these cameras are .270-proof?”
Since they continuosly sent out a K-band radar wave, they are easily avoided without resort to our 2nd Amendment protections.
A trooper with an instant-on Ka band, not so much.
“Despite the opposition of the state legislature, the Texas Department of Transportation proposes a federally funded speed camera test.”
So who’s running Texas, the elected state legislators or unelected bureaucrats?
If it’s unaccountable bureaucrats, you are living under a de facto dictatorship, where the voter’s right to be represented via the ballot box has been abolished.
In a different country a long time ago, people looked to the future and imagined a world with robot maids, cooks, doctors, chauffeurs. They would do the work while we kicked back and read the paper.
I’m still scrubbing my grill by hand and taking my own trash out, but they’re putting up robot highway robbers all over the country.
Progress?
LOL! Beat me to it.
I wonder if they’re “hacker-proof”?
I wonder HOW they id cars... by license plate?
This is America, not England. (Heck, this is TEXAS, not America!) A cottage industry will spring up to beat this crap.
“Nervous Tick Brand Front License Plate Scrambler Technology”.
Doesn’t roll off the tongue, though... I’ll need to work on an acronym.
Or perhaps chameleon paint and the rotating license plate ala James Bond.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.