From the federal bureaucracy that brought us the tests that were designed to convict everyone of drunk driving, er, measure sobriety, comes an announcement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that they intend to require all vehicles to be monitored 24/7 by Uncle Sam. NHTSA will require that all motor vehicles become equipped with something called Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications technology. V2V will constantly broadcast, via radio wave, the car's location, direction, speed, and the number of passengers in the vehicle. Failure to install and maintain this device in your vehicle will be a crime, enforced at gunpoint. NHTSA hopes to have this legislation passed within the next five weeks. According to US Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, the V2V program will serve two main purposes: "To coerce people out of their cars"; and to tax people "on the number of miles that they traveled." I'll leave you with this gem of a quote by LaHood. He either consciously or subconsciously gives about the best definition of government I've ever heard: "About everything we do here (in the Department of Transportation) is government intrusion in people's lives." Further Reading:
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Domestic Violence: 271 Calls for help
Read this story and tell me there is not a war on men in Guadalupe County. Atlanta man shatters coast-to-coast "Cannonball Run" speed record How long before an overzealous prosecutor or Sheriff gets a subpoena for this guy's GPS data or obtains traffic camera videos and charges him with Deadly Conduct or Reckless Driving? New Braunfels Municipal Court Week Not only do they want our money, freedom, and time, but now they want our thanks and appreciation. The last time you had to pay a ticket did you notice that they referred to you as their "customer?" I have noticed this in more and more courts the past few years and it makes me sick every time I hear it. Customer is defined as the recipient of a good, product, or service obtained from a seller for a monetary or other valuable consideration. By its definition, the customer in one half of a voluntary, free-market transaction between a buyer and seller. When the government orders someone to court and demands tribute, their threat is backed by the barrel of a gun. No matter how trivial the charge, the implicit (and sometimes explicit) threat is "give us your money or we will send men wearing funny costumes and carrying guns to your house to kidnap you and throw you in a cage." Next time you are arrested, harassed, ticketed or fined remember to thank them for their service. |
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