Comments on: Say NO to speed cameras http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/ A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary. Tue, 08 May 2012 12:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: away70 » Blog Archive » Say NO to speed cameras http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/comment-page-1/#comment-46077 away70 » Blog Archive » Say NO to speed cameras Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:56:38 +0000 http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/#comment-46077 [...] can read the full story here Author Ryland Le Comments [...] [...] can read the full story here Author Ryland Le Comments [...]

]]> By: Reality Me » Engineer Roads for Speed Control http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/comment-page-1/#comment-45779 Reality Me » Engineer Roads for Speed Control Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:50:09 +0000 http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/#comment-45779 [...] is pondering the use of automated speed cameras to ticket people who violate the speed limits. I am opposed. I am a treat the problem, not the [...] [...] is pondering the use of automated speed cameras to ticket people who violate the speed limits. I am opposed. I am a treat the problem, not the [...]

]]> By: sam http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/comment-page-1/#comment-44413 sam Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:20:26 +0000 http://realityme.net/2007/10/30/say-no-to-speed-cameras/#comment-44413 I'm afraid to see this topic show up on the local news blogging site for fear I'll once again speak my mind and once again incur the wrath of any number of people. Apparently the only reason one can possibly not love the new cameras is because that person is unhappy that they can no longer flaunt the law and run red lights and break the speed limit. I too detest the cameras for a number of reasons. I don't personally think it's alarmist to bring up recent stories of Blackwater as possible examples of the possibilities when law enforcement subcontracts their work to for-profit companies, which is not to say the two situations are on equal footing but that this is the slippery slope. I also don't see red lights and speed limits as equal to any number of other issues that deserve more of our time and concern. We could look at schools or development in our poorer neighborhoods or street repair or . . . I’m afraid to see this topic show up on the local news blogging site for fear I’ll once again speak my mind and once again incur the wrath of any number of people. Apparently the only reason one can possibly not love the new cameras is because that person is unhappy that they can no longer flaunt the law and run red lights and break the speed limit.

I too detest the cameras for a number of reasons. I don’t personally think it’s alarmist to bring up recent stories of Blackwater as possible examples of the possibilities when law enforcement subcontracts their work to for-profit companies, which is not to say the two situations are on equal footing but that this is the slippery slope.

I also don’t see red lights and speed limits as equal to any number of other issues that deserve more of our time and concern. We could look at schools or development in our poorer neighborhoods or street repair or . . .

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