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Originally Posted by Doc
Palm your face all you like. If you don't think it's creepy having somebody you don't know tracking your every movement and being able to shutdown your car at their whim... well all I can say is I have no desire to be a lobster in the pot.
It seems like a good idea now, but government always abuses power if given the chance and the potential for future abuse of this "feature" is incredible. O had no authority to tell a private sector CEO to leave his job but he did and got away with it. He'll keep testing the limits of what he can get away with to find out how far he can go. They are literally passing laws without reading them right now; we have no idea what they've put into law.
Oregon politicians want to pass a law taxing you for every mile you travel in the state and guess how it's tracked... yep, through MANDATORY gps in your car. And if they can track how many miles, they can also track how long it took and calculate your speed...automatic speeding tickets, no need for a cop to write you one. Don't want to pay? Want to protest? With something like Onstar they can just disable your car and if you try to prevent that, you can be arrested. Remember if it's a matter of law enforcement, companies and services have to cooperate. And if they've shut down your car, there would be a mandatory "reactivation fee" too. State politicians are trying to come up with every possible way they can think of to generate revenue so don't for a minute believe they won't use this type of technology. Oh but they're breaking the law! Yes it's always easy to justify power and control when you wrap your motives in "concern" for the law and "safety" of others. Therein lies the path to tyranny when people are willing to let others take care of the responsibility for their lives instead of doing it themselves.
Think that's all that can be done with this technology? You know how lobsters are cooked don't you? Pay attention before the water gets to the boiling point and you're cooked. By the time you realize what's happened it will be too late. Freedom requires vigilance against the potential for tyranny. Between gps in phones and cars, it won't be long before technology has the power to track and monitor in real-time your every movement. Oh it will all be done under the guise of "security and safety" but it will be an Orwellian nightmare because as always the wrong kind of people are drawn to that kind of power like moths to a flame.
Read the papers in the U.K. if you want to see where this kind of system is heading; they've already begun.
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I think you must've watched Eagle Eye just a few too many times... your paranoia is very extreme. Usually the people who are the most paranoid are the people who are doing stuff they shouldn't be, and they're just worried about getting caught.
So you think there are enough resources to track every movement of every single person? And you are against the idea of people violating traffic laws? What would be the difference if a cop caught you speeding, vs someone finidng out that you did? Either way, you were speeding... you were
knowingly doing something that you shouldn't be doing. But then... how many times has someone zipped by you going 100 mph, or ran a red light or something, and you thought to yourself "man, where are the cops when you need them?"
And then to top it off you're worried about not paying the ticket, and "them" shutting off your car... well guess what? Do you know what happens when you don't pay your electricity/heat bill? That's right... it gets shut off. No service. Why would that be any different?
If you don't like it, you sure are living in the wrong country. And if you decide to leave, please take Michael Moore with you. kthx.