Hughes had called a colloquy among lawyers for the city -- David Feldman and Hope Reh -- and the lawyers for ATS -- Andy Taylor and George Hittner -- on the day after Thanksgiving. Although the city technically filed suit against ATS, the city staff do not want to see the cameras removed any more than ATS does. The parties hashed out a compromise that happened to give ATS everything the firm wanted."ATS requests the court to preserve the status quo by enjoining the city from terminating the public safety program or otherwise implementing Proposition 3, pending an adjudication of these fundamental issues of law affecting not only these parties, but the general public at large," Taylor wrote in its brief to the court filed Wednesday.
The actions in Houston track what happened last year in the city of College Station after voters approved an anti-camera referendum. Attorneys for the city attempted to lose the lawsuit that ATS filed to overturn the result of the public vote.
Men in Black. Subverting the will of The People. This has got to stop.
ABC channel 13 glosses over the detail that the City of Houston is NOT acting on behalf of the public in a manner to see the revenue stream dry up.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7813385
Once again, the elected government has become the enemy of the citizenry. Somehow, we keep doing this over and over.
Meanwhile, the desires of the city citizenry can simply be dismissed.
These local tyrants (and globalists-central planners and elitists) are somtimes worse than our Federal officials, IMO, I have seen it before..
Judge Hughes is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a one-world government promoting organization.
I wonder why he blocked the measure.
Another NWO jackass.
The Oligarchy..protecting one another....
These red light cameras are not about safety. It’s all about generating revenue.
The will of the people be damned.
They could have kept the clause in the contract that would have given them an out, but they purposely took it out to prevent them from being legislated out of existence.
Slimy ba$t@rd$.
The judge had no choice in this. The politicians that acted unilaterally against the public will to thwart upcoming legislation should be tarred and feathered and sent out on a rail. The towns people need to march on city hall and take out the trash.
Our communists judge and his counter parts in action. We the people are just slaves to our masters.
The only way to turn back the tide of tyranny in this country is, unfortunately, a revolution.
Think of the movie Swordfish at the local level, all the way to the global level. It will have to be an underground operation supported by ordinary people. Flame away.
More evidence of the infantile attitude of the public: they want to be able to do anything they want. It is the true “triumph of the will”: the ego-first attitude of modern Americans. This is not the genuine spirit of Liberty.
So I run a red light? I wanted to, and no one should tell me I can’t, or even watch what I am doing. Too bad if I should hit anyone, because my will comes first.
I should also be able to marry anyone I wish, even perhaps an animal; and take marijuana or anything else, and go anywhere I want; steal confidential information including government secrets; never be thoroughly checked at an airport; and never have anyone else criticize me (lest I be “offended”). All my “rights” should be absolute, and my responsibilities removed or forgotten.
This would add up to an ideal paradise for immature-minded marshmellows in a world with no threats, and all desires provided by endless debt.
Unfortunately, we live in a world of hungry beasts, where regimes made for coddling infants will get devoured alive.
Yeah, peons, ya think ya vote counts in referendums like this.
It don’t.
Just because voters pass a ballot measure doesn’t mean that it should be implemented.
A federal judge issued this order? If the local cops aren’t supposed to enforce federal law toward illegal immigrants, let it be known that they will not be enforcing laws regarding property damage to these cameras. At the very least, treat it as a civil issue, not criminal.
http://www.txs.uscourts.gov/district/judges/lnh/biography.htm
They are hiding who appointed him very well...I’m still digging...
Not that anything I find out will matter in the long run...
Has anyone found a link to information that “zeros” the location of these 70 some odd cameras???
I know they moved some around because they were not generating enough revenue for the city, dispite the claim (false) that they were installed to provide “safety” at intersections in this town...Like any of the illegals in this town would obey a traffic signal in the first place...
Should be too hard to “avoid” these intersections for a while longer...They’ll tweek light cycle to allow the cameras to capture more folks on short “yellows”...
Thats what I would do...