Reply #20: You have my sympathy.

[RogueBandit]

I have a real problem with the traffic cameras. First, where is the accuser? You are supposed to be able to face your accuser, aren't you? Or is that a myth from my childhood?

Mostly though I oppose the inability of Judges to actually make judgements. All they do anymore is make a mockery of fairness and balance by reading a prescription just like doctors do anymore. Yeah, I know that wasn't very grammatical but I'm ranting so what can I say?

If someone really runs a red light then I say let them have their day in court. If someone seems to have run a yellow light they better get more than their day in court...it is a gray area...where's the judges leeway?

But the real problem with traffic cameras is that they can follow a person around town. The cameras are high quality now, they can read faces and those faces can be compared.

In my town they are putting a fiber optic ring around town just for those cameras, at least that's what they say. I'm sure it's Homeland Security dollars and they plan on doing a lot more than they say. On top of that the fiber optic ring is only for the government...no internet access is planned so we're stuck with cable and dsl.

Rant, rant, rant...sympathy...rant, rant, rant...sympathy.

John