A simple solution to Big Brother
Posted on 08/25/2002 2:36:06 AM PDT by glc1173@aol.com
LONDON - Vigilante motorists, angry because so many speed cameras are being put up on roads all over Britain, are destroying hundreds of the devices each week.
The drivers, operating surreptitiously at night, are spraying black paint over the lens or putting the cameras out of commission with blow lamps or setting them on fire after dousing them with petrol.
Over the past week alone, 30 cameras - each costing £7,000 (S$19,000) to buy and install - have been damaged beyond use on the busy North Circular Road around London.
Police are taking advantage of a new government scheme which allows them to keep part of the fines obtained from motorists caught going over the speed limit by cameras.
The money has to be spent on buying more cameras - and the result is an ever increasing number of flashing, electronic speed traps.
Fines average £80 and drivers are given a number of demerit points, depending on the speed they were travelling at.
If too many points are accumulated, the driver is banned from driving for three months or more.
Motorists' organisations have pinpointed several stretches of straight and level roads where up to five speed cameras have been installed over a distance of 10 km.
There are 325 cameras in central London and hundreds more on suburban roads.
This week, anonymous letters were sent to national newspapers by an organisation calling itself Motorists Against Detection (Mad), claiming responsibility for the acts of vandalism against the cameras.
The growing number of attacks on cameras in recent weeks signalled the start of a British-wide assault on the devices, Mad warned.
Although thousands of cameras have been damaged, police have not received a single message from any passing driver reporting a vandalism. As a result, no one so far has been caught damaging a camera.
But a Department of Transport spokesman said: 'Research has shown that the number of people killed or seriously injured on some dangerous stretches of road has fallen by 47 per cent after the installation of speed cameras.
'There has been an alarming increase in the number of cameras being vandalised and this could lead to deaths on the road, through speeding.'
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Today's Brits understand that their grandparents didn't fight, kill, and die in WWII only 50 years ago so that their grandchildren would live in an Orwellian police state even Hitler and Himmler couldn't have dreamed of!
That's why today's Brits - even though generally lacking guns (so far) to attack the spy cameras and traffic cameras at their weakest point (big ground-level control box) - are now in a fightback mode, and why they are fighting back so effectively that they have the initiative and the enemy cannot keep pace with them!
Learn what streetside spy cameras here in North Carolina look like (photos!)
The Brits didn't start attacking traffic cameras in large numbers until several years after Britain became an Orwellian police state infested with huge numbers of streetside spy cameras and traffic cameras.
So it's not an issue of "manhood." Instead, after the London Telegraph reported that the first mere fistful of traffic cameras had been destroyed with impunity by people just lassoing the camera head with a rope tied to a car bumper, it unleashed a tidal wave of popular rage among typical Brits who knew that their grandpas didn't risk death to give them life in what amounted to a giant prison camp that Himmler couldn't have dreamed up.
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And its in the interest of national security!
Buy Unintended Consequences instead!!!
It's a long, thinly-veiled "novel" that has Washington's elites scared out of their mind - because it's a very-realistic guide to how "leaderless resistance" in the heartland - provoked by Washington finally providing the last straw - would end in a low-tech conflict Washington couldn't win against socially-conservative irregulars not in touch with one another.
It's consistently been around top 5,000 of Amazon.com's over-1,000,000 titles for years - despite no promotion and being published by a tiny publisher.
With 1 street spy camera per 25 Brits, that long ago effectively happened. However, serious crime has steadily climbed as the spy camera network increased there - and headline crimes there recently often include reports that no spy camera saw anything!
So many spy cameras - with a higher ratio in urban areas - mean invariably that no place in urban areas isn't (theoretically) viewed. However, spy cameras work poorly at night - when the attacks on cameras are happening. They work even less well on foggy nights - as they are "in the clouds."
Britain's elites are losing the war on their own people that they started - as they are unable to keep pace with the destruction of the traffic cameras and spy cameras!
Unintended Consequences is truly one of those extremely-rare books, fiction or nonfiction, that you'll find yourself reading and rereading over and over - and getting new ideas from each time. It is a definite must-have, must-study item for every dissident - and Washington fears it far more than all those "how to make your AK-47 go full-auto books," which is why BATF tried (unsuccessfully) to hassle its author.
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