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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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To: Responsibility2nd

They’re going to use this to find terrorists and violent criminals, right? This isn’t going to harass Tea Party members and contributors to the Republican party, right? This won’t be turned against people who oppose gay ‘marriage’ right?

Dream on.


41 posted on 02/19/2014 9:28:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Who the HELL are the DHS to track anybody? Every bastard in that Organization needs a punch
to the face when they show up in local communities. And the Sherriff needs to do the punching!
42 posted on 02/19/2014 9:40:08 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: null and void; Responsibility2nd; All

Thanks for the ping; post. Thread BUMP!


43 posted on 02/19/2014 9:52:19 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Responsibility2nd

What do you have to hide anyway? It’s your patriotic duty to allow yourself to be tracked citizen!


44 posted on 02/19/2014 10:22:43 AM PST by vpintheak (Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is only a stopgap measure, to be sure, but if you want to gum up the works and make it harder for them to track you, get a license plate that’s hard to read.

A study by North Carolina State University entitled “Effects of License Plate Attributes on Automatic License Plate Recognition” (google it if you’re interested) found that the cameras had the easiest time reading plates whose numbers were grouped together and separately from letters; where stacked characters were not used; and where the color contrast between the numbers/letters and the background was the greatest (such as black letters on a white background).

The cameras were much less effective with plates featuring stacked characters, or ones where the numbers and letters were mixed together, or ones where the number/letter and background contrast wasn’t too great. For “improved” results, try to get characters that can easily be confused, i.e. B/8, E/3, I/1, etc.

Some states’ standard-issue plates meet some or all of these criteria; but if yours isn’t one of them, you can probably find a specialty plate that would address the contrast issue (e.g. one with white lettering on a yellow background), and maybe even the stacked-character issue; then you can get a personalized one like “B8E3I1” or something.


45 posted on 02/19/2014 10:24:38 AM PST by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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M4L


46 posted on 02/19/2014 10:27:06 AM PST by Scrambler Bob ("The Pen" has a nice ring to it, kind of like "Graybar Hotel")
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To: Responsibility2nd

They have to track them down to offer them EBT cards.

Apparently the welfare ads in foreign langauges were not at successful as Obama had hoped.


47 posted on 02/19/2014 10:29:38 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Time to buy a couple of horses.


48 posted on 02/19/2014 10:44:55 AM PST by bgill
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To: Responsibility2nd

They surely already have that ability. They are just looking for authorization to use it openly against people.


49 posted on 02/19/2014 10:53:59 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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I am sure it already keeps most potentially problematic Congressmen in line. Bohner and McConnell are likely intimately familiar with the NSA’s blackmail potential, and John Roberts, too.


50 posted on 02/19/2014 10:56:26 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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Yes they are going to use this to track Illegal Aliens. Right.

LOL - yeah right. I suspect the little jerkoffs are going to use this to track 'political opponents' of the new Police State...

51 posted on 02/19/2014 11:01:47 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
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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.

I think you're right Desert...

52 posted on 02/19/2014 11:03:22 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about. We are tracking you for you own safety. By tracking you, your phone calls, your medical history, your gun ownership records, school records, voting records, political actions, music preferences, pet ownership, your ‘smart’ appliances, GPS tracking locators, and these new microphones required in all light fixtures in your home YOU are helping to catch terrorists.

If you object...Well, we have ways of dealing with traitors.

The irony here will be a Chinese company will sell license plate covers to render them unreadable to cameras.


53 posted on 02/19/2014 11:13:39 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Iscool

>>Who in the world is Homeland Security???<<

Global government under the control of corporate marketers and manufacturers.


54 posted on 02/19/2014 11:22:40 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: null and void

They have to know where you are after all


55 posted on 02/19/2014 12:55:38 PM PST by Nifster
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