Today on one of the morning shows something interesting caught my attention. This technology is right around the corner: If your car has an On Star System and for some reason the police want to pull you over, they can simply call On Star, give them your tag information and ask them to stop your car. They are looking for technologies to install this into every car in the country.
Chatting at work today we realized that this would be an ideal way to for the government to control travel. They could simply decide that “today is a no-travel day” and have the police departments turn off our cars. So maybe that’s not in the immediate future, but if we don’t stop these instrusive behaviors when they are seemingly small, they will just get bigger and bigger.
Beware and be aware of what YOUR government (on all levels) is doing.
Also, if some of you have been noticing an increase of police on the streets in Larimer County – it’s no illusion. The City of Loveland alone has budgeted $48,000,000 for the Loveland Police Department for the year 2008. In a town of 60,000 that means $800 per person for police service in 2008. Notice I call it police services, because the only thing they seem to be protecting lately are their own jobs. With a first offense Colorado DUI costing approximately $15,000 and with a person issued a speeding ticket at every corner, can some one please tell me why the police need a $48,000,000 budget?? It’s seems to me their doing a good job collecting their own budget.
Note: As I was pushing “publish” I can hear a siren going by outside. We live near a highway that has become a major speed trap lately (it’s even trapped us – $100 speeding ticket last month). Some poor soul has just added their share to the $48,000,000.
