Effect of Speed Cameras: Harmful to U.S. Citizens' Bill of Rights
There are many
supporting reports surfacing on the Internet, many in the form regurgitated propaganda, some from foreign countries which serve as host to their multi-national for profit cofporations, which generally preach the same mantra:
speed cameras and red light cameras lead to improved highway safety.
Since it appears that the
insurance industry-funded IIHS recent report,
failed to make much of a lasting
impact online, it now appears that the
photo enforcement industry and their shills are digging up old, tired, and distorted reports in attempt to flood the discussion, and therefore attempt to define the discussion in their terms.
OK. Since these reports are re-emerging, let's address
their salient suppositions with our
own reasoned counter-points.
What these speed camera industry-funded "supporting" documents ignore are other far more important positive contributing factors to highway safety, such as improved automotive manufacturing in automobile safety.
And, finally, the most egregious omission from these reports are the corrosive effects speed camera photo enforcement has on an individual's Civil Liberties.
Bottom Line: When one crunches the numbers (even using the speed camera industry's own inflated/exaggerate numbers), an intelligent individual has to logically conclude that
these photo enforcement systems may very well be the most inefficient "enforcement" systems ever created.
To clariy: They're
very efficient for the
shareholders of these multi-nationals, grossly in-efficient to the cities, states, and their residents.
Remember, when you form an opinion on the increased use of photo radar speed cameras in the U.S., please recall these patriotic ideas: "Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons." Ron Paul, Texas Straight Talk, April 23, 2007
This battle to preserve our Civil Liberties will most likely intially play out in the court of informed public opinion and then our courts.
If you find these
speed cameras and red light cameras as
patently offensive to our freedoms, as I do, please don't sit idly by until it too late.
Get involved! Support organizations that serve to
protect our [driving] freedoms.
Join the NMA.
Contact you local and state representatives and tell them to
vote NO to these systems.
...Come to think of it, we are coming into an
election year...
Effect of Speed Cameras: Harmful to U.S Citizens' Bill of Rights 
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