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Homeland Security is seeking a national license plate tracking system
Washington Post ^
| 02/18/2014
| Ellen Nakashima and Josh Hicks
Posted on 02/19/2014 8:14:24 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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Why bother with tracking our license plates? Seriously, just go ahead (and try!) to RFID all citizens at birth and just be done with the endless spying and snooping of US citizens.
To: Responsibility2nd
Creepy. If you live in a state with no front plates, time to get a pickup and drive around with the gate down.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:15:53 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Yes they are going to use this to track Illegal Alians. Right.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:16:32 AM PST
by
guardian_of_liberty
(We must bind the Government with the Chains of the Constitution...GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY)
To: Responsibility2nd; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:16:37 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Responsibility2nd
Homeland Security. Created supposedly to protect us from Moslem terrorism.
Not the size of the USMC with twice the budget, and focusing squarely against the American people. This will be our Gestapo.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:17:23 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Responsibility2nd
They will not be using this information until they decide to start using the information.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:18:27 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: guardian_of_liberty
> The national license-plate recognition database, which would draw data from readers that scan the tags of every vehicle crossing their paths, would help catch Tea Party members....fixed it
To: DesertRhino
Typo. That’s “Now the size of the USMC”
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:19:04 AM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Responsibility2nd
The national license-plate recognition database, which would draw data from readers that scan the tags of every vehicle crossing their paths, would help catch fugitive illegal immigrants, according to a DHS solicitation.
Seriously?? To help catch fugitive illegal immigrants?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You know - if they are gonna lie like that - then at least have the decency to come up with a more believable lie.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:19:06 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
The Department of Homeland Security wants a private company to provide a national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access to vast amounts of information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers, according to a government proposal that does not specify what privacy safeguards would be put in place.The only acceptable reliable safeguard is for this information never to come to them at all. Think about it -- what "safeguard" can be trusted when it's implemented by people who've shown chronic disrespect for our civil rights and privacy, and who, even if this were the one exception and they actually intended to secure the data, are so incompetent their software products come out like HealthCare.gov???
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:19:35 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: DesertRhino
This will be our Gestapo. "Whatchu talkin' bout, Willis?"
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:21:29 AM PST
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:22:24 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Still Thinking
I have “antique” (they came from antique stores and are ~40 years old) plates on the front of a couple of vehicles. I’m wondering how that is going to work out.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:24:56 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Responsibility2nd
Yet another reason guys like Rand Paul are embracing Ed Snowden Libertarianism. It’s going to get increasingly popular, given how the tin-eared bureaucrats continue to totter along as if nothing has changed.
To: Responsibility2nd
What did you think all those cameras were for?
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:25:10 AM PST
by
Ray76
(How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
To: Responsibility2nd
would help catch fugitive illegal immigrants
LOL
could only be accessed in conjunction with ongoing criminal investigations or to locate wanted individuals.
LOL
It is important to note that this database would be run by a commercial enterprise, and the data would be collected and stored by the commercial enterprise, not the government,
ROFLMAO
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:29:56 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Still Thinking
<1>If you live in a state with no front plates, time to get a pickup and drive around with the gate down.
Not sure if it's front or back that they can capture. Maybe both. We have to have two plates in Maine. I did some research on things like bright IR LEDS to wash out the lettering on the plate but the results seemed to be mixed at best. Yes, tailgate down, perpetual mud, trailer hitch carrier, etc. might be the only good albeit awkward options.
To: Responsibility2nd
And the answer is:
Form an LLC to hold Property, transfer all vehicles and re-register, so your vehicle has NO TIES to YOU when they scan and keep your plate info.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:35:49 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: Responsibility2nd
...would help catch fugitive illegal immigrants, according to a DHS solicitation.So they could more efficiently be signed up as democrat voters.
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:36:51 AM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
To: Responsibility2nd
A spokeswoman for DHSs Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) stressed that the database could only be accessed in conjunction with ongoing criminal investigations or to locate wanted individuals.
~snip~
Agents would be able to use a smartphone to snap pictures of license plates that could be compared against a hot list of plates in the database. They would have 24-hour, seven-day-a-week access, according to the solicitation, which was first noted last week by bloggers.
Which lie am I supposed to believe?
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posted on
02/19/2014 8:37:59 AM PST
by
TomGuy
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