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Traffic cameras read license plates, mail tickets for lack of insurance

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UPDATED: Saturday, December 12, 2009 18:01
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Friday, December 11, 2009 11:16 PM

PIRATENEWS

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This is the secret weapon used by the Pentagon in Iraq, that Pentagon employee Lt Bob Woodward at the Washington Post wrote about.

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Cameras set up at about 200 locations along selected highways would focus in on a tag’s bar code — found at the bottom of each tag — and record it. Bar code scanners would match the tag numbers with a national database containing real-time vehicle insurance information.

Vehicle owners without valid insurance would be mailed a ticket.

"That’s a horrible idea,” said Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City. "It’s Big Brother at its finest.”

The proposed automated enforcement would expand Oklahoma’s existing system, which went online in July. The system now checks only Oklahoma vehicles; checks are made only when a vehicle owner has an encounter with a law enforcement officer, such as a traffic stop or being in an accident.
The new system could generate additional revenue for the state, which is in the midst of a revenue shortfall. Tax revenue for the state so far this fiscal year is about 22 percent below expectations.

Representatives from one company told legislators last session an expanded system could generate about $300 million annually. The state wouldn’t pay for the system; the company would be reimbursed from funds received from fines or administrative penalties.

"What we’re looking at really is only Oklahoma vehicles, but if the company has the ability to do non-Oklahoma vehicles they should present that in their information,” said David Beatty, project manager for Oklahoma’s compulsory insurance verification system at the state Public Safety Department.

Having cameras and bar code scanners record random Oklahoma vehicle tag information is possible because of the new tags that motorists are required to buy this year. Oklahoma’s new vehicle tags include a bar code. All vehicle tags are to be replaced by the end of this year.

Reynolds during this year’s session raised questions about the bar codes on the plates, but was told they were simply for inventory purposes by the state Tax Commission. Now, he said the Public Safety Department’s plans confirm his suspicions.

"Are they going to use these cameras to see if people are speeding?” he asked. "Are they going to use these cameras to see any number of other things that might be wrong? But I don’t think the public wants to be filmed constantly. Are we going to have cameras in people’s bedrooms in their homes? We don’t need Big Brother.”

www.newsok.com/oklahoma-could-keep-an-eye-on-uninsured-motorists/artic
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There's no such thing as "compulsory insurance", just stupid sheeple paying for a bailout of the insurance gangsters. Another one of those robot tickets you can throw in the trash and ignore, for those who can still read and think.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:20 AM

SERGEANTX


Maybe we should just cut to the chase and vote for insurance companies rather than political parties.

SergeantX

"It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah"

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:56 AM

BYTEMITE


It's not just insurance, other large corporations and industries have lobbyists who act much in the same manner.

The word is corporatocracy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy

I don't think America is strictly a corporatocracy just yet... That would ignore the suspiciously funded PACs, the think tanks, and the CIA/FBI.

As soon as I find a word that actually describes what's going on, I'll tell you, but fascist police state is close enough for our purposes.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:41 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Byte:

Kleptocracy?

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:50 PM

BYTEMITE


Also close, though when I think of a kleptocracy, I think of Russia with the mafia and corrupt politicians openly looting the treasury. Our government is still trying to hide behind pork and cooked books. It's like we're balancing on a knife edge between multiple bad roads we could go down, and someone's pushing from behind, and the bad roads are steep and all lead the same place.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:01 PM

CHRISISALL


Big (rich) Brother.


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