You’ve heard about the automated car.
How about automated policing?
Instead of government drones (that would be cops) picking
our pockets at gunpoint, the “work” (and profit) is being turned over to
private contractors, who do the same at camera-point, using debt
collectors to force us to stand and deliver.
This is not new – but it is becoming more blatant.
If you ever had any doubt that the issuance of speeding
tickets was little more than another form of tax collection, consider
what’s going on in Youngstown, Ohio.
The city recently signed a three-year deal with one of
those Mussolini-minded companies that uses government to line its
pockets and calls it free enterprise (another example of this being the
insurance mafia). The company is going to make a lot of money by
peppering the city with automated radar guns that eliminate
the need for a cop to actually pull someone over – or for the courts to
waste their valuable time proving beyond a reasonable doubt that each
and every “speeder” is guilty as charged.
Instead, the tickets – the fines – go out automatically.
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