Speeding Cameras

[John Kilduff]

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This thread was not about eliminating all traffic laws or removing the speed limit. The question was don't you think that taking a picture and sending it to your home saying pay this ticket you were speeding, is a violation of our personal freedom? Face it the government is getting to big and controlling. It is a fact and there is no arguing this.

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So your belief is that it's oppression for you to use someone's property in a way expressly forbidden by the person and then to be punished for that misuse via a means of which you were previously aware (in this case, a ticket)?

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I have a little bit of difficulty classifying state property as "someone's property". Not a great deal of difficulty, but I do have some.

For one thing, the state didn't pay for it, the people did. So it really should be owned by the people and not the state. It might of course be administered by the state, but the state should not get to own it.

As it is paid for by the people, the people should have some way to determine whether or not they want camera-traffic-law-enforcement on the people's roads. Voting for politicians won't really do for that because the bureaucrats who make such decisions are often well distanced from the political process, and because political candidates generally have more important issues to run on.

I think more things like this should go up for Referendum Vote before being implemented.