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To: Darth Sidious
All I can tell you is that the Anchorage City Council (or more precisely, a few Democratic slime-suckers on it) brought those "traffic cameras" up here ("for the children"). They were supposed to be used only in school zones, during hours when children were around.

But guess what? They soon popped up all over town, at all hours- always in high-traffic (and high-revenue) areas.

We fought back on several fronts, and several of the suggestions made on this thread are good ones. BUT, the thing that really worked was massive civil disobedience. We just flat refused to pay the bogus tickets. (I still have mine- unpaid. I may frame it). A judge finally threw all of these tickets out- but I don't think the sheeple who paid them ever got their money back...

The lesson is that this is just another tax, and the ONLY way that taxes have ever been repealed in history has been through civil disobedience (too many folks refusing to pay for the government to handle), or war.

Take your pick.

27 posted on 01/02/2002 9:06:45 PM PST by RANGERAIRBORNE
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To: RANGERAIRBORNE
BRAVO!!

This is what I tell the people all the time. If you want something to change you have to band together and put your foot down. You can change laws!

We have our first two camera lights and I bet we'll have more installed. What surprised me is that the company who makes the cameras takes the majority of the ticket money with the city getting only a small percentage.

Sounds like a perfect set-up for the margin of error to be on "their" side.

80 posted on 01/02/2002 11:20:09 PM PST by Vicki
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