Posted on 01/26/2018 12:31:20 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009
Yes, I recall a long time ago, back in the 90’s, driving back from a trip to Missouri, and a week or two later receiving a ‘survey’ in the mail from Texas A&M wanting to ask me about my out of state trip. It may not be fully coordinated at the national level yet, but if it isn’t I’m quite surprised.
Last time I got a ticket, the cop’s radar gun had a picture of my plate with the recorded speed superimposed on it, and etc. etc. Big Brother has been here a while, and given how the government works, he’s probably a step or two ahead of where we think. Tinfoil and all.
I don’t really like it, but it is what it is.
Why am I not comforted by that last bit?
That’s why we need citizen review boards for EVERY police department and sheriff’s department in the country.
You shouldn't be, because as the number of license plate reading and recognizing devices increases, the location and travels of just about any vehicle will be easily determined - both by government employees and everyone else.
In a few years the ordinary citizen will a cell phone will be able to look up the location and travel history of just about everyone, and there will probably even be an app which lets you see where Officer Smith eats lunch, so you will know he's not out on Highway 20 with a radar gun.
Of course, as you noted, Bill the Burglar will know when you are over at Home Depot as well. Whether that state of affairs is comforting or not is hard to say, but it seems like it does make everyone behave better.
Where I live you go through a BP check on the freeway, the cameras go off as you approach.
Not every state requires an annual vehicle safety inspection, but mine does. Last year taking digital photos of the vehicle became standard, and it’s uploaded into the State database.
Does that include the plate & registration on my peddle bicycle?
Yeah, but they know all YOUR movements too.
I suppose you subscribe to the saying:
You have nothing to fear if you have done nothing wrong.
Milwaukee, Wisc. parking Nazis have l/p cameras and keep track of which plate was seen where and when. They highlight a vehicle in a 2 hr zone if YOUR TIME IS UP!
OR at a meter if your wheels haven’t turned if the meter is in a max time zone.
It’s pretty Orwellian.
Drivel......
You are free not to drive.
What are you bitchin about? Your tag is there for visibility, for the specific purpose of Identity.
1984 - it’s here
GHWB - “and we will be” (successful at achieving our NWO)
It has always been part of the government grand plan to Flood the country with Illegals and then use their crimes as an excuse to spy on and control Americans.
Why is it that all fixes to this situation involve doing things to citizens on a 10:1 basis they’re done to the illegal aliens?
Whose cars will be tracked?
LMAO, is there a collective of even 100 brain cells in Washington, D. C., outside of the White House, that is?
Wake up and pour some coffee. Vigilant Solutions has been building this data base for more than 5 years. The Feds can enter a license plate and a date and know every traffic inrpters3ction you passed. It is there. And there have been rare instances where they used it and referred to it in open court. Probably a great money maker for VS.
What’s going to stop them from going after the rest of us “law-abiding” citizens?
They’ve had this for years and it’s only an excuse to use it against illegals.
I do Not subscribe to that notion.
My post clearly indicates opposition to this initiative.
Amen
More people think similarly than we know.
Big brother, no thanks at all.
Agreed. Being the victim of a uninsured,
unlicensed illegal alien driver, I have
no problem with this. Your drivers license
is in state records, why not your license
plate. If it helps get illegals off the
road, I’m all for it. Driving not a right.
“If you think this hasn’t already been going on for more than a decade ... you’re mistaken.”
This has been done and is being done on many Californicator roads with very high traffic loads. They call it traffic studies.
The company/companies that have done these “studies” use the cell phones in every car to determine where the commute started and where it ended.
They also use your Fast Trac for these studies. When you are driving on a Cali Freeway, and you see how fast the traffic is moving ahead of you. That data is being determined by the the Fast Tracs in our car and our cell phone.
Every once in awhile, we see a car pulled over to the side of the road with several police cars and maybe a SWAT unit surrounding the vehicle.
The driver/passengers are on their knees with their hands behind their heads. The drugs/dope/whatever is being stacked outside and off the road by the stopped car and photographed.
It is amazing how the LEO’s knew to pull over that single car out of thousands on the same road.
Someone might get a similar idea: to track GPS enabled phones!
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