Quote:
Originally Posted by mr smith
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...y-8648744.html
This is more of a concern than red light cameras. Try opting out of using Google or Microsoft...
The govt is for the people, have you had a chat with your local member? Maybe the majority are for speed and red light cameras. The only people I know who complain around the water cooler at work about being busted are the serial pea heads who think the world revolves around them.
|
Isn't that story about the US Government accessing data collected by companies from their users? Does that mean we agree about Governments overreaching when it comes to surveillance of its citizens (or in the case of your story, the citizens of foreign nations)?
But you think that red light cameras are good because the best way to modify someone's behaviour is a letter in the mail at some point in the future, carrying a fine and loss of points from their licence. Unless of course their income/wealth is such that the fine is insignificant. And maybe their vehicle is registered to a company and unless said company nominates them as the driver, they just pay more money to the government and they can keep doing it. That doesn't sound like revenue raising at all.
There's another possibility. Have some more police on the streets in the brightly coloured Falcons (at least for a few more years) and Commodores and when they see you running a red light they can pull you over, check your licence and write YOU a fine, not your car. And also them being around in their highly visible cars would be even more of a deterrent to running a red light, straight away. So even important people in a hurry could suffer the inconvenience and put their driving privileges in jeopardy.
But maybe you just meant you didn't like people who run red lights. I don't like people who do that either because it's dangerous. Maybe we agree on two things. We should be friends!