Posted on 03/17/2012 3:34:48 PM PDT by Dallas59
Cameras at petrol stations will automatically stop uninsured or untaxed vehicles from being filled with fuel, under new government plans.
Downing Street officials hope the hi-tech system will crack down on the 1.4million motorists who drive without insurance.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are already fitted in thousands of petrol station forecourts.
Drivers can only fill their cars with fuel once the camera has captured and logged the vehicle’s number plate.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
The number would probably climb to over 90 percent in counties along the Mexican border.
BINGO—DING-DING-DING-—WE HAVE A WINNER!
Like invisible ink as the heat intensifies the mark of the beast is getting clearer and clearer.
Coming soon to the place where you live.
Watch.
Total Information Awareness? That is a John Poindexter thing at the Pentagon. Total Evil.
I WILL NOT COMPLY,
I WILL NOT OBEY!
What an invasion of privacy.
Checking your tag number every time you fill up.
Another incremental degradation of rights: You’ve noticed that all gas cans sold in the last few years have those infernal eco-nozzles on them? I have and I ain’t playin’. There’s a way to get around them but I ain’t sayin’.
I fill my old diesel truck with cans now. Did the same with the Piper Colt years ago.
hopefully you’re not on fumes 100 miles from home when the server goes down
Is there any freedom the British AREN’T willing to surrender?
“Welcome to the Total Surveillance State (tm). Comply or die.”
The UK is so screwed up! I guess it’s really true that the best Britain had to offer escaped and created the USA. They have so many “speed cameras” (GATSOs), that there is a whole “cottage industry” that wanders through their countryside “setting them alight!” They throw gasoline-soaked “tyres” around them, then they take pictures of their handiwork and post them on their website for all to see.
I can’t comment for the US as I don’t live there and have no knowledge of your rules of the road, but in the UK it is compulsory to drive with insurance. Uninsured drivers are the reason my premiums keep going up and up, and for the reason I have absolutely no problem with this idea.
I am entirely pro the rule of law
That said, you've just demonstrated the difference between Brits and Americans (at least we old-timey, backward-ass Americans): we don't automatically like govt control of our lives (and others) just because it maybe, kinda sounds like a good idea. Our default position is, or more accurately, was, to be suspicious of and resistant to expanded govt control over our lives "for our own good."
So while the cultures of our two countries grow further apart in some ways, it's interesting to note that we both seem to be growing in our fondness for the comfort that somewhere, in front of some video screen, at the end of some scanner, in some darkened, hardnened control room, there sits someone tasked to make our lives better.
The comments are so shocking. The British are in the tank for lives of slavery.
Whatever it takes, eh? As long as the trains run on time ...
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