Re: Calif. Assembly Puts Stop to Red Light Cameras [the answer]

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From: Tim Skelton
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00

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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998 01:21:21 -0700, nightwriter@geocities.com
(Nightwriter) wrote:

>I think that cameras used to deter crime are good. Lets not go off the
>deep end with civil rights. For who's rights are more valualbe your right
>to privacy as you run a red light or a child's right to live a full life
>that you kill in the crosswalk as you run your red light?

Specious argument.

It's always "the children" that are used to justify the most
horrendous incursions upon our civil rights.  "Keeping kids off drugs"
has been the rationale behind a massive erosion of our 4th, 5th, and
8th Amendment rights in the last three decades.  "Child labor" laws
were the beginning of a dramatic expansion of Federal power in the
early part of this century.

Our country was founded on the principle that the government that
governs least governs best.  The Framers would shit their pants if
they saw state-run cameras at stop lights.
--
Tim Skelton

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From: tskel.esq++++@worldnet.att.net (Tim Skelton)
Subject: Re: Calif. Assembly Puts Stop to Red Light Cameras [the answer]
Date: 1998/07/13
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