Posted on 12/20/2015 6:17:43 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March
There is a new kind of technology out there -- the automatic plate reader. Installed in a police car, it can currently auto-scan an average of 700 license plates-per-hour. That will continue to improve. And it red-flags every dirty plate in sight. Ohio already uses it, but Ohio [for example] customized its system to ignore petty crimes.
That is how powerful it is -- APR must be programmed to ignore the 'small stuff'.
Even if a criminal switches plates, technology could easily fix that problem, such as a scanning bar and ID tag on the dashboard. They would need to destroy the windshield or break into the car for the switched plate to match the dashboard ID. [Or just put the plates behind the glass to begin with.]
So far illegal immigration is something APR tech is not programmed to notice.
Why?
Politics.
Auto-plate readers could decimate our illegal immigration culture. They would need someone with a clean plate to haul them around, and vehicles crammed with passengers are easier to notice. The illegal immigrant culture would collapse, and that is intolerable to the Establishment.
So now the ACLU and the Establishment and Governor Mc-Awful of Virginia hope to trick the anti-establishment into helping oppose APR tech. And it's easy to do. For example:
"... This kind of Orwellian technology allows patrol officers to use mined personal data about 'all' residents, including law-abiding ones, to fight street crime. For example, the Memphis patrolman no longer has to type a license number into a computer console in his car, All he has to do now is drive around and let the 'automatic plate reader' capture the plate numbers on every nearby vehicle. If the reader alerts to a problem, the officer no longer has to wait 20 minutes for someone back at the department to manually check the suspect's records. He is equipped with a 'hand-held device' that brings up the suspect's mug shot, Social Security number, the status of his license, and whether he has any outstanding warrants..." -- johntfloyd.com
[How 'spooky'.]
Link and tips-for-research coming up ...
The trick is this — centralized control of technology is always the great danger, such as during the Dark Ages when few peasants could read and books were copied by hand.
State control of ARP would never overthrow our republic. Federal control would be the great danger. I do propose we have a federal database of all current license plates [and we probably do already]. That’s the only necessary federal power to kick off an anti-illegal-immigration purge.
And I am very glad we have so much technology that they have failed to overwhelm us — yet.
Because something can be done, it is most likely to be done.
The nature of man whether local or centralized, is what it is. This WILL be used for other purposes to take away our freedom.
Be sure you have the bigger picture here. There are no magic bullets to solve problems.
But as I said, we are screwed anyway because the laws are the moral code now, not our relationship with God.
“Again, technology is never a substitute for good management
(decision making)”
I would rather start off with mediocre management than work with antique equipment. It’s not hard to improve management if you have the will to.
The only exception is rebellious armies which need to be extra-clever just to survive.
“The nature of man whether local or centralized, is what it is. This WILL be used for other purposes to take away our freedom.”
That is a study of centralized power, not of decentralized power. We need to empower the states and decentralize federal power or we are doomed regardless of our tech level.
“... we are screwed anyway because the laws are the moral code now, not our relationship with God...”
I agree that faith improves morality. It would greatly help us if our church leaders go back to what Jesus and the Apostles said and quit dusting off their complex theology books and other sagely anti-spiritual works.
Have you ever pondered the APR [automatic plate reader] as a tool to catch illegal immigrants on the road?
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