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Hidden on Page 403 of infrastructure law is a mandate for a government backdoor 'kill switch' for cars
wnd.com ^ | 1/19/2022 | Michael Austin

Posted on 01/20/2022 7:21:10 AM PST by rktman

When it comes to the manufacturing and use of automobiles, the U.S. government enforces a long list of regulations.

In the name of safety, federal law requires that all new automobiles include seat belts, air brake systems, airbags and so on.

Thanks to the massive infrastructure bill passed in November and signed into law by President Joe Biden, the government soon will be enforcing a new regulation -- one that gives federal authorities the ability to shut off your vehicle at any time.

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Buried on page 403 of the legislation, the provision requires "advance drunk and impaired driving prevention technology" to be built into all new cars.

This technology will be able to "passively monitor the performance" of all drivers, suggesting this system will be on at all times.

If the data indicate the driver is "impaired," the system will "prevent or limit motor vehicle operation," according to the legislation.

The measure is set to take effect in 2025.

While the legislation claims these precautions will be used to limit the number of drunken drivers on the road -- a noble goal -- many are speculating that the mandated kill switches could be used in other situations as well.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenadm; bloggers; conspiracytheories; infrastructurebill; killswitch; newsforumabuse; onstar; vehiclekillswitch; whosincontrol
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"In the name of safety, federal law [??? emphasis added] requires that all new automobiles include seat belts, air brake systems, airbags and so on."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Although vehicle safety devices are indispensable imo, patriots are reminded that the only power that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the federal government to deal with safety is limited to the context of Writ of Habeous Corpus as it pertains to rebellion or invasion, corrections, insights welcome.

In fact, the following paragraph by Justice Joseph Story not only explains how the Commerce Clause is not to be interpreted, but Story uses “manufactures” (manufactured goods) as an example of something that the Commerce Clause does not give Congress the power to regulate.

"The question comes to this, whether a power, exclusively for the regulation of commerce, is a power for the regulation of manufactures? The statement of such a question would seem to involve its own answer. Can a power, granted for one purpose, be transferred to another? If it can, where is the limitation in the constitution? Are not commerce and manufactures as distinct, as commerce and agriculture? If they are, how can a power to regulate one arise from a power to regulate the other? It is true, that commerce and manufactures are, or may be, intimately connected with each other. A regulation of one may injuriously or beneficially affect the other. But that is not the point in controversy. It is, whether congress has a right to regulate that, which is not committed to it, under a power, which is committed to it, simply because there is, or may be an intimate connexion between the powers. If this were admitted, the enumeration of the powers of congress would be wholly unnecessary and nugatory. Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 1073--91

Also, the Supreme Court had clarified in Reid v. Covert that the federal government cannot use it's power to make treaties as a back door to expand the federal government's powers.

"The obvious and decisive answer to this, of course, is that no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution." —Reid v. Covert, 1957.

So neither can Congress use its power to make treaties as a way around its limited Commerce Clause powers to dictate to foreign manufacturers how to make products exported to USA imo.

Finally, one of the reasons that the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress is continually overstepping its constitutionally limited powers is this. After the shrinking majority of early FDR era, Supreme Court justices had clarified Congress's constitutionally limited powers in terms of the 10th Amendment (10A) as the excerpt from United States versus Butler above shows, FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices later wrongly politically “repealed” 10A in Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard).

More specifically, using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” also references to manufacturing, here is what was left of 10A after FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices got finished with it in Wickard.

"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [???] in the status of statehood. Certain activities such as "production," manufacturing, and "mining" were occasionally said to be within the province of state governments and beyond the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause [??? emphasis added]." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.

This politically correct "insight" of FDR's justices into 10A has arguably been used as a license to justify unconstitutional federal interference in the affairs of the sovereign states since SCOTUS wrongly decided Wickard in Congress's favor imo.

Corrections, insights welcome.

The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing, Democratic Party-pirated federal and state governments, allegedly manufacturing crises to oppress everybody under their boots...

Consider that the states effectively have "veto power" over continued unpopular, unconstitutional actions of the feds.

More specifically, all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.

Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.

Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (16&17A), little or no discussion required imo.

In fact, I challenge the states to ram the repeal amendment for 16&17A through the ratification process faster than Nancy Pelosi irresponsibly rammed unconstitutional Obamacare through the House. /semi-sarc

Again, insights welcome.

41 posted on 01/20/2022 10:52:22 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: rktman

So your car isn’t yours.


42 posted on 01/20/2022 10:59:51 AM PST by Irenic
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To: AFB-XYZ

With the proper tools/equipment, one can build practically anything needed for the “classics”.


43 posted on 01/20/2022 12:38:45 PM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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Hmmm... Another link in the chains we all bear...
NBD!
Our communist masters know that the Aamerican sheeple will just roll over and spread their collective cheeks..
44 posted on 01/20/2022 12:40:01 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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With the proper tools/equipment, one can build practically anything needed for the “classics”.

Yep. What you won't be able to do is insure it. "Sorry, sir, but we require proof of a monitoring system in order to activate this policy." And "Sorry, sir, no license plate if you don't have proof of insurance."

45 posted on 01/20/2022 12:53:18 PM PST by Billthedrill
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There are a boatload of videos on YT showing guys in Afghanistan and those places rebuild and reproduce all kinds of parts for cars and trucks. It is absolutely amazing what can be done with next to no tools.


46 posted on 01/20/2022 2:12:39 PM PST by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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“no license plate if you don’t have proof of insurance”

Depending upon the state, 9-30% of cars are uninsured.

In the future, assets like stocks and bonds will be become a liability. That is because they are liquid and they can be easily found and seized. You will become a slave trying to retain those assets. Better will be land with modest shelters in undesirable areas, and some practical skills that will give you something to barter. You want to be judgement proof. Then you don’t need no car insurance


47 posted on 01/20/2022 2:25:30 PM PST by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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Just having a satellite receiver somewhere in the vehicle passively waiting to receive a shutdown signal, would be nearly pointless because it could easily be found and disabled.

They will have to make it so that you can’t operate the car unless it receives coded satellite signals periodically. The function will have to be integrated into the microprocessor chip in the power train control module (PCM).

Disabling the remote shutdown will entail replacing the PCM. If the practice becomes widespread they will probably legislate against it.


48 posted on 01/20/2022 7:19:47 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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Probably have to insert some sort of system check trick to fool the computers. No signal, no start. After you scan your CONvid QR code of course. LOL!


49 posted on 01/20/2022 7:30:53 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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There are no coinkydinks...

New EU speed limiters set to launch in months may come with a 'different set of dangers' NEW EU speed limiter tools set to launch in the UK this July may have led to a "different set of dangers" on the road under its previous guise.

Be sure to read the article about what the EU wanted to do thd first time around.

And hey, UK, how's about that Brexit, eh?

50 posted on 01/23/2022 4:17:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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This is why Biden's infrastructure bill includes requiring kill switches on all new cars
51 posted on 02/06/2022 4:30:20 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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