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Photo-Radar Van Driver Shot to Death
AP ^ | April 19, 2009 | Not Attributed

Posted on 04/20/2009 10:53:49 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper

Link only...cannot post AP


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: photoradar
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To: hoosierham

If this UN Rights of the Child treaty is ratified,
the social workers who will be enforcing it will be

GLEEFULLY

enforcing it.


21 posted on 04/20/2009 11:39:30 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: MrB
The person who sent him is the oppressor.

Agreed. However, those out on the front lines are normally the first targets in such things as they are more "accessible" than their Bosses are.

It's regrettable, even evil in it's own right, but it's going to happen. "Just doing their job" isn't going to be much protection in the days ahead.

No, I am most definitely not condoning such things. On either side.

22 posted on 04/20/2009 11:48:55 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (1000110010101010100001001001111)
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To: hoosierham

Thank Janet Napolitano for those little gems..


23 posted on 04/20/2009 12:07:14 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Towed_Jumper
Napolitano said the program was a way to improve public safety but critics said its inclusion in the budget indicated that increasing state revenue was the real motivation. Critics also say the program isn't fair to motorists.

Gov. Napolitano's office first tried to sell this to the public as a state revenue increase and played up the fact that there were to be no points or criminal penalties associated with speeding past a photo van. They later came out and admitted that that was a poor choice of selling points and went with the 'slower speeds save lives' message.

24 posted on 04/20/2009 12:15:08 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
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To: hoosierham

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more destruction of the automated cameras.

When i was a kid, somebody’s dad would have shot out cameras like that...and we lived in a very nice community.


25 posted on 04/20/2009 12:28:51 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: Centurion2000
Looks like the shooter's intention worked. RedFlex, the private company operating the DPS photo cameras pulled all their vehicles and people out of safety concerns. Can't say I'm sympathetic to them at all.

I hope the guy, simply doing his job, is OK, and that not a single other Big Brother camera is EVER installed in the USA again.

26 posted on 04/20/2009 12:31:58 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: numberonepal

Mea culpa, i guess, in my post #26. I don’t really see a camera-installer guy as the driving force of evil, though.


27 posted on 04/20/2009 12:33:57 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Towed_Jumper
cannot post AP

Wrong. Excerpts of AP copyright articles are allowed.

28 posted on 04/20/2009 12:38:31 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Towed_Jumper

I hate those cameras more than most people do. That being said, I can’t condone physical violence on the operator.


29 posted on 04/20/2009 12:41:16 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: HiJinx

Look at some communities, they are buying fancy, souped up Mustangs, unmarked police trappers, so they can nab you going 41 in 25 trap zones, then watch for $250 “surcharge” or about $450 for casual speeding ticket tax. (how many freakin tickets they need to pay for that “tool”????)
Sometimes feel like driving 25 everywhere just piling up the traffic, but being “safe”.
Having radar detector saves from those concealed tax collectors.


30 posted on 04/20/2009 12:42:36 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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To: mysterio

How do we know that this murder had anything to do with the victim’s role as a contractor for speed cameras? There may well be another motive having nothing to do with his job, such as a feud over money or a woman. We should not assume that he was killed by the stereotypical angry white male who hates government intrusion.


31 posted on 04/20/2009 12:46:18 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Travis T. OJustice
I hope the guy, simply doing his job, is OK

He's dead.

32 posted on 04/20/2009 12:52:13 PM PDT by Eaker (The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
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To: Eaker
He's dead.

Well I guess that settles that, then, doesn't it.

33 posted on 04/20/2009 12:55:28 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Eaker

I probably should have picked that up from the TITLE of the thread. DUH ME!


34 posted on 04/20/2009 12:56:03 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice
I probably should have picked that up from the TITLE of the thread. DUH ME!

Now go slap Beauford again. ;)

35 posted on 04/20/2009 12:59:24 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: Leo Carpathian
Look at some communities, they are buying fancy, souped up Mustangs, unmarked police trappers, so they can nab you going 41 in 25 trap zones, then watch

I don't know about your area, but Connecticut is covered with towns who have had insurance companies buy them DUI Enforcement Units by the insurance companies.

36 posted on 04/20/2009 1:16:17 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

>>>“The story is a little confusing as it says that a suspect is in custody bit the suspect vehicle,...”

>>A K-9 suspect? << <<<

I should be annoyed by the mistyping police but I am LOL too much to be so! :)

(I really can’t operate a modern computer without a mouse).


37 posted on 04/20/2009 4:50:06 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham; Admin Moderator

Can someone post the link — or better yet, the consistent navigation to the FR posting and excerpting rules?

I was looking for them the other day and I could not find them for the life of me.


38 posted on 04/20/2009 4:57:49 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: mysterio

When I hear that the cameras are being taken out, I think what a great thing. But, when someone kills another human being over it, that is just sickening. The victim was on the phone with his wife at the time he was killed, as well.


39 posted on 04/20/2009 8:04:59 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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