Posted on 09/18/2017 1:46:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Highway 19 in West Virginia
From Serve and protect” to “observe and collect”..
In a virtual Police State like 21st century USA, citizens need dash cams and body cams with upload to a phone and then to the cloud being available at a voice command.
A few years back, I heard a rumour that Obama and Hitlery and others like them wanted to bring back the double nickel speed limit. I can also remember reading stories of how when that was first brought it back in the mid 1970s, that states out in the West (where there is basically no limit in many areas) would fine you five dollars and that ticket was good for a certain time while you were in that state.
I call the State Police “Revenuers”.
“As far as what can be done?”
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.”
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
Hmmm...
I don’t even like variable lanes or turns. My first and only moving violation was for making that left hand turn in Culver City after 3 pm. Grrr.
Rt 29 in Virginia has constant speed limit changes. They don’t need the electronic version.
This scenario would actually be unconstitutional as an ex post facto law.
Assuming that logs are kept of when the speed was changed, if the driver passed the sign and then the speed was changed, it would be ex post facto to ticket him for it.
I'd bet that after the first ex post facto challenge, there would have to be a grace period of about 5 minutes before police could legally ticket a driver, so as to clear the road of those who passed the sign before it changed.
-PJ
We should call them Heisenberg Speed limits.............
Why would I think that others would think that when it doesnt register to the same people that no organization, especially not government, should be in charge of healthcare and retirement?
There has been a series of electronic speed limit signs on I-40 in the mountains of North Carolina for over 30 years. It’s activated by poor visibility, the lower the visibility the lower the speed limit. Fog is the problem on that stretch. I’ve driven through there when the speed limit was 5. We were hanging our heads out the windows looking for the lines on the road. Afraid to stop, for fear of getting rear ended.
Ping.
This is nonsense.
And there is already a law that one cannot drive faster than is safe, which is what this variable speed limit would ostensibly address.
They use them against the SeattLunatics on I-5 in Washington. I’ve seen them go from a steady 60mph to 50mph - and then moments later downshift again to 40mph. Even if you were lucky to have noticed the first change you likely didn’t see the second.
“Ignorance is no excuse of the law” - JBT
Thank you for quickly getting to the truth. Of course this is unconstitutional as being an ex post facto law. In fact, this is the classic example of one used in civic classes and law schools around the nation.
I was thinking about that. Laws that say you can’t drive faster than is safe are fine. But this is not about safety. It’s about milking the public for profit.
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