Get the Feeling You're Being Watched?

Miscellaneous Current Events
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Get the Feeling You’re Being Watched? If You’re Driving, You Just Might Be## Cameras to Catch Speeders and Scofflaws Are Spreading – And Sparking Road Rage

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123811365190053401.html?mod=yhoofront

Once a rarity, traffic cameras are filming away across the country. And they’re not just focusing their sights on red-light runners. The latest technology includes cameras that keep tabs on highways to catch speeders in the act and infrared license-plate readers that nab ticket and tax scofflaws.

Drivers – many accusing law enforcement of using spy tactics to trap unsuspecting citizens – are fighting back with everything from pick axes to camera-blocking Santa Clauses. They’re moving beyond radar detectors and CB radios to wage their own tech war against detection, using sprays that promise to blur license numbers and Web sites that plot the cameras’ locations and offer tips to beat them.

Here’s what one state is doing about it: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/26/2690.asp Montana Legislature Considers Red Light Camera Ban

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The lie when these cameras were first introduced was they would make the roads safer. Anyone who pays attention to traffic laws and citations know that they were a way to further tax the public. Now it seems they are being used to ticket anyone who is not a perfect govbot.

I wonder if there are police out there who are angry that instead of protecting the citizens of their area they are being used as nothing more than a tax collector using driving laws as their tax code.