Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads?

NormalVisual writes "License-plate reading cameras are popping up on utility poles all over St. Lawrence County in upstate New York, but no one is willing to say who they belong to. One camera was found by a utility crew, removed from the pole, and given to the local police. 'Massena Police Chief Timmy Currier said he returned it to the owner, but wouldn't say how he knew who the owner was, nor would he say who he gave it to....(Andrew) McMahon, the superintendent at Massena Electric Department, said one of his crews found a box on one of their poles and took it down because "it was in the electric space," the top tier of wires on the pole above the telephone and cable TV wires, and whoever put it there had taken a chance with electrocution. He said they had never received a request or been informed about its placement.'"

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Nope, just an arrogant fuck that doesn't know that the LIBERALS are the racists and the conservatives don't have a problem.

That's absolutely true. The only way to avoid being racist is to simply treat everyone by the same fair and equitable standard. If you give special favor to anyone based on race, that policy is inherently racist. In the long term, the only way to ever defeat racism in a real way is stop participating in racism in any form. That creates less racism. Responding with a different flavor of racism still creates more racism.

What's really racist is to fail to understand this, and then to pretend to be a particular race's "friend" by assisting them in ways you assist few others. Of course you want to look nice and to present yourself as a real friend in terms of how much you're willing to do, how many double standards and other corrupt things you're willing to champion. Anything you do for them they learn to stop doing for themselves. It will atrophy. It's like what happens to a muscle when you stop using it, except on a larger scale.

In most other contexts, this is called dependency. A friend you've come to need isn't really so friendly. The relationship has then shifted; it is now based on power. It's not the mutual benevolence you were sold -- if it were that, it would come from a level of consciousness which isn't so petty as to divide by group identity. It's petty because it's an emotional, feeling-based approach to life that ignores reason because it is not appreciated. Most Liberal types are well-meaning but fall into traps like believing reverse-racism to be a solution to racism. It certainly does have the intended effect on votes, with many Democrat politicians taking "the black vote" for granted.

You can see how that couldn't work except that they see themselves as fundamentally different from whites and vice-versa. That's the part that is a lie. That speech by Martin Luther King Jr. is so famous that they had to have heard it. I think they forgot that part about the content of someone's character.

Most Conservatives are worired about things like financial matters, with vocal minorities concerned about things like abortion and gay marriage to the point of obsession. That sucks but it's not their main problem. Their main problem is that they understand enough not to play that particular dependency game, but too little to offer anything much better. They have little more than their own set of unreasonable demands, dividing the entire political landscape into two camps which each find one set slightly less repulsive than the other.

Albert Einstein gave us some good quotes. Ever heard this one? "The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them." That's what the average person will realize once they finally unplug from this self-limiting matrix of left-right politics.