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Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras
DaGoatSpanka writes with news that Mississippi Governer Haley Barbour signed a bill into law on Friday which instituted a ban on automated cameras that would snap pictures of motorists when they ran red lights. "The new law says the two cities that already have the cameras, Jackson and Columbus, must take them down by Oct. 1. Other cities and counties are banned from starting to use them." We've discussed situations in the past where cities looked at such cameras as "profit centers," and even tampered with their traffic light timing to catch more motorists. Now, in Mississippi, the contractors who installed the cameras are unhappy, since they received a cut of the ticket revenue generated by the cameras. However, lawmakers overwhelming voted to get rid of them (117-3 in the House, 42-9 in the Senate), because "the cameras were an invasion of privacy and their constituents thought they had been unfairly ticketed."
Who would have thought that Mississippi would blaze the trail of liberty
We need this law on a National Scale
We need to do this while we are still a somewhat free people!
There is nothing more obnoxious to freedom than a fucking robot camera issuing moving violations
Not sure why it causes such a violent reaction - but it does - every time I see one, I start with the fantasies of getting some C4 and a blasting cap and BOOM!!! no more robot camera!
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
You are the one honest man posting here. The others are a bunch of prissy holier-than-thou liars.