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To the "Chip in the Homosapian at birth crowd", the higher the high tech methods of controling the populace, the simpler it is to have a ton o' fun. A bunch of brainy MIT grads with a lust for high tech play can never out-think the simple creative power of a bunch of guys over a six pack, repeating itself exponentially accross our great hamlet.

I personally like the cell phone tracking paranoi-ics. All you do is place a few nutty calls to the Whitehouse on your cell phone. Then Federal Express it to yourself on monday, Airborne it to yourself on Tuesday, and so on......They'll be tracking you over every square inch of this country in any given 24 hour period. Imagine the fun.......

"I personally like the cell phone tracking paranoi-ics. All you do is place a few nutty calls to the Whitehouse on your cell phone. Then Federal Express it to yourself on monday, Airborne it to yourself on Tuesday, and so on......They'll be tracking you over every square inch of this country in any given 24 hour period. Imagine the fun....... "

You have way too much time on your hands!

Its called "monkey wrenching".

We know that they will depend on license plate numbers.
* Who doesn't have a roll of electrical tape? Does the front have to match the back?
* Time to gather up a list of VIP license plate numbers and have fun bolting them to cars parked in seedy areas of town.
* Hold my beer, I betcha I can hit that camera lens with this pellet gun.
* Cameras all get wired to some box nearby, do you have any vintage films like 'Debbie Does Dallas' or maybe video tape a loop of that intersection and play it over and over and over - or how about a loop of a different intersection?
* With a little creativity, can't the camera be reaimed at something more interesting, like that pool over there?
* I understand that an automotive coil and a battery can play some serious havoc on low voltage electronics.
* I wonder how effective that camera is after one of those discount store laser pointers are fired into its lens?
* Maybe bunches of us can keep driving into bad areas of town, loitering for five minutes then leave. Do this several times a week. Let them spend valuable resource trying to prove something.

But here is the unintended consequence that will ultimately benefit us lovers of freedom and liberty. There is such a thing as information overload. When there is so much information and not enough analysts or people to respond to certain triggers, then the triggers get made to be more specific in what sets them off. Eventually the specificity gets so bad that it is worthless, but the government won't admit it. There is another factor. People are lazy, and government employees overrepresent the number of employed people who are profoundly lazy. The government will trust their computers and cameras so much that they won't actually do any survelling themselves. They just sit around and wait for a computer to say something then they react like Pavlovian dogs. After a while you get a Peter and the Wolf Syndrome and the grunts in the field won't trust the equipment that the politicians swear up and down is the best thing to hit law enforcement since the gun. Then you get idiots like me who will make it sport to monkey wrench the system by throwing in bad data, with the goal being that if my car is continually emulating activity that is confused with terrorism, and time after time they discover that I am toying with them, guess whose car goes on the Filter-Out list? Data is no good if you can't trust it, and if my data keeps coming up bad, then no sense wasting valuable law enforcement assets to play cat and mouse with me (and hopefully thousands of more people).