Texas DOT to Install Federally Funded Highway Speed Cameras

theNewspaper.com ^ | 6/11/2007 | Staff

[garyhope]

You know, sometimes Texas gets pretty muddy and that mud, well heck, it just goes everywhere, sometimes even over your license plates and being that we’re trying to save water here, cars don’t get washed as often as they should sometimes.

[Deguello]

"Miles later a second photograph is taken that allows the vehicle's average speed to be calculated from the time it took to travel between the two locations."

[Trajan88]

Someone showed them the money and they're going to take, take, & take it.

Nothing like being guilty until proven innocent.

Last I heard, the U.S. Constitution guarantees one's right to face one's accusor, but I guess it doesn't apply here (how can one really question a machine?)... apparently it is all about the "living/breathing" document.

By the way... as a Texas A&M Aggie Former Student, just so y'all know... HWY 6 RUNS BOTH WAYS.

TAMU Class of '88

[LibertarianInExile]

The same RINO GOP that got tossed out of power in DC is doing its best to get tossed out of Austin. When the RINOs come griping after they’re back out of power that it’s the fault of those conservatives who would no longer hold their noses and vote for `em, the question to be asked is, if the GOP saw it happen in DC, how is it not the GOP leadership’s fault for losing the legislature and the governor’s mansion? They’re the ones who kept playing the tax-and-spend-big-gummint tune, knowing the consequences!

[mysterio]

Any community that allows the cameras to remain operational takes what they get. A citizen has to draw the line somewhere. Seems those cameras might be quite pricey to fix.

[ASA Vet]

Can I demand a jury of my FReeper peers?

[rednesss]

I don’t know, there some real, THE LAW IS THE LAW types on here who would probably only too gladly hang you out to dry.

[Trajan88]

Re: "Can I demand a jury of my FReeper peers?"

Correct me if I'm mistaken... if it is anything like red light running cameras... they will not allow a jury trial by classifying the infraction as a civil offense - you'll not get the option to a jury trial.

However, they'll try to "soften" the blow by not having the speeding "offense" show on your driving record... oooo, goody-goody. Just send the state the $200 fine and all's good in the world of big bro.

[SteamShovel]

A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.

Part i or ii sound like Algore and his "movie" to me.

There must be something illegal about his propaganda (maybe treasonous?) and he certainly wants us to go back to the stone age which is "dangerous to human life".

[ASA Vet]

Only takes one juror applying jury nullification to ruin big brothers day.

[rednesss]

Actually don’t a lot of offenses only require 10 out of 12 jurors to convict????

[ASA Vet]

Maybe you missed it.

Rednesss in post #11, wasn’t warning about a civil infraction “messing around with a red light camera.”

He/she was suggesting a full blown Federal felony under the Patriot Act.

[rednesss]

That and the “tarring and feathering” threat. That could be deemed coercion.

[rednesss]

I used to be all for the Patriot Act, but looking at some of the wording in it, it gives me pause. Under this wording the Boston Tea Party would have been a terrorist act.

[ASA Vet]

It's a moot point anyway, I won't be sending any purchase orders, and I won't likely travel though TX anytime in the next 100 years. It's too hot, too dry, and is full of Texans and wanna be Texans (aka Illegal invaders)

Donning flame proof Jammie's now, and ducking for cover. :-)

[Logical me]

Time for the Citizens to organize and get a ballot measure up making the speed limit at least 120 or none at all. Wouldn't that frost them?

[ASA Vet]

Our owners back then did consider the Tea Party Indians as terrorists. If they'd been caught they'd have been hung.

We are pretty close to that same status now. Property.

[oblomov]

If the matter of controversy is over $20, you have the 5th Amendment right to a jury in a civil case.

[razorback-bert]

warnings at first -- to motorists driving just 5 MPH over the limit with an accuracy level of +/- 2 MPH, meaning those driving just 3 MPH over the limit could receive a photograph and letter in the mail.

Yea, right, I got a warning ticket for 71 in a 70 zone a couple of years ago.

[oblomov]

Sorry, I meant 7th Amendment.