Posted on 01/09/2023 9:22:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
Kris Kristofferson said that “freedom” is “just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” To the political left, freedom is an abomination that must be defined and controlled by the ruling class elites. And what better way to do that than to crack down on automobile travel?
Cars are a favorite target of all progressives and most Democrats. No human invention has increased freedom as much as the automobile. That’s why they have chosen to go to war on cars. It’s a long-term campaign that will take decades to finish. But there are victories along the way, and one of them was won in Washington with the help of Republicans.
According to Bob Barr, a former federal prosecutor and congressman from Georgia, the infrastructure bill the president signed a little more than a year ago includes “a little-noticed ‘safety’ measure that will take effect in five years.” It “amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” Barr wrote in the Daily Caller, and every car built after 2026 has to have one.
Of course, the mandate was characterized “as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving.” But safety is always a pretense for further government intervention and the erosion of liberty. Prime example: The COVID-19 lockdowns we just went through.
Writing in Motorius, automotive journalist Steven Symes notes that, to many, a mandatory kill switch “might sound like a wonderful idea.”
“After all, we’ve seen wanted criminals who have fled from police only to crash into a car with a family inside, killing innocents as they try to avoid capture. Being able to stop the pursuit early and almost instantaneously seems like a wonderful thing, a potential lifesaver any law-abiding citizen would enthusiastically embrace.”
The trouble is, too many in government refuse to abide by the law. Only the naive will believe that vehicle kill switches will be used only for lifesaving purposes. Imagine how a Transportation Department secretary appointed by a Democrat would use such a tool for the purpose of “fighting global warming” – to return to a simpleton’s platitude oft spouted by Al Gore, who’s made a career out of belching mindless drivel. He or she could dictate when and how far people drive.....
A government-controlled kill switch on cars.....What could go wrong?
In the next AZ election, roughly half of the voters in Maricopa County will find that their cars don’t start on election day. But don’t worry: the problem will resolve itself by Wednesday.
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They really do act like they hate people having freedom of mobility.
They LOVED the lockdowns.
You need no further evidence than their punitive efforts. Once they started to get more EVs and hybrids on the road, they wanted to enact new laws to tax people by the mile for driving?
Of course, the simple explanation given for this was that they were losing tax revenue from gasoline sales.
WHAT HYPOCRISY IS THAT?
The fact that electricity will become increasingly more expensive due to higher demand, and also the fact that they could increase taxes on electrical supply doesn’t seem to jibe with the reality for them. Everything they do seems to punish human mobility (among many other things)
EVERYONE should read the store of the Gen-Z woke simp bitch, who worked for Biden, who ran around social media pushing them to ban every conservative media voice there is
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-01-08/who-wh-official-who-shadow-banned-tucker-carlson
Nuke the entire site from low orbit. It’s the ony way to be sure.
If you could shut off the $$$ that would do it, but figuring out how is a different matter. First we need to STOP soros and zuckerberg and those like them!
Kill all the lawyers.
They need the serfs to stay on the manor.
“If you could shut off the $$$ that would do it”
The new House could do this.
But, of course, they won’t.
bttt
Nothing to do with cars, but I think Flight 97 was supposed to be a kill switch on DC. It fair.
Why change anything? Why stop the gravy train? Trump tried to change a few things and see what happened to him. There is a Kill switch—But its an answer we do not want to hear. It comes in the form of a big blue flag with a single white star. Chuck the whole woke bag and start over again. Tom Jefferson was right: “The Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants, from time to time.”
How about getting a mechanic to permanently disable such things?
Yep, Kill switch for DC would be radioactive. No worse than what they are doing to America now.
It will be in software. The software these days is protected (probably encryption and digital authentication). You might be able to prevent cellular communication by cutting the antenna cables.
The government gets to control the carbon
You.
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