It’s Time To Declare War On Traffic Robocams

In a society where even local government can’t resist taking control of absolutely every aspect of our lives, sooner or later they run out of our money. They are perennially and relentlessly expanding their turf and responsibilities.

Our political incumbents learned long ago that the best way to get campaign contributions is to hand out lucrative contracts for crap we don’t need to savvy parasites willing to bribe.

Tax revenue is diverted from simple things we do need like police and fire protection along with schools and libraries. Of course our politicians arrange to have exquisitely furnished palatial surroundings that reinforce their own importance.

The incumbent politicians stay awake nights dreaming of things that they can build. Since they can only build government buildings they must next fill them with people doing all kinds of make-work projects.

When these guardians of the public trust run out of our money for the things we do need they play the only game they know, extortion. The parasitic politicos steal freedom and liberty and enslave us thorough confiscatory and redundant taxation.

Creativity, variety and cleverness of these politicians brought about the traffic robocams. They put these devices up to catch people who have made it a habit to drive for real traffic conditions rather than to the letter of the law. Our elected leaders bolster their solutions claiming the robocams will make us safe by reducing accidents. Statistics have proven otherwise.

In the mean time robocams must be disabled, destroyed or defeated by simply ignoring of each and every citation. If everyone refused to pay the robocam system would fail under its own weight.

In Arizona this is close to happening because of civil disobedience through refusal. Arizona’s courts are awash with robocam scofflaws. Sooner or later they have to dismiss the citations. Pushing all that paper with no cash return only increases problems for these government agencies.

One high-ranking law enforcement official once argued for the robocams to also be placed on rural areas where motorists really speed. That suggestion brought immediate rebuke because they said that whenever they place the cameras outside of heavily traveled areas the cameras are immediately vandalized. That strong message is clear. If their cameras are damaged they don’t want to play. Apparently there are still some patriots left in America!

There is only one real solution. Term limits for all politicians. If we have no incumbents then the control by special interests over our politicians is greatly reduced. The concept of professional, experienced politicians needs to end. Amateur politicians are a much fiscally wiser idea.

I'd like my visitors to tell me how our founding fathers would have responded to the robocams...