And Another Thing
The Austin City Council are a bunch of assholes for voting to install cameras at lighted intersections so that they can ticket people for running red lights.
I’m all for busting people who operate their vehicles recklessly, but that’s what cops are for. Cameras are for recording everything and keeping tabs. Cops are for making judgement calls and acting on them in the public interest.
This camera thing is just a fucking money grab. It’s a means of introducing and inuring the public to being spied on and controlled. I don’t like it and I hope there will be plenty of civil disobedience on this issue until each and every asshole on the Austin City Council admits that he was just in it for the money and is sorry that he caused a sharp increase in the number of traffic accidents and injuries in this town. Because that is what will happen. People are going to be hitting their brakes in situations where they never did before just for fear of getting ticketed. And they’re gonna to be getting jacked up from behind instead.
Bank on it. Just like the asshole Austin City Council is.
