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To: John Carragher who wrote (128366)	7/29/2005 5:01:20 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

. Why would people fight putting in a camera to ticket people driving through red lights? Or speeding in congested city streets? Two generations of living with the notion "better dead than red" in the shadow of "1984" or perhaps 200+ years of "give me liberty or give me death"? It is hard to go from that to "give me safety and a little less liberty".

To: John Carragher who wrote (128366)	7/29/2005 5:15:49 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

The automatic accuse/convict/sentence process which assumes guilt not innocence gives me the willies. I know I know, driving is a privilege. Isn't that convenient. Why would people fight putting in a camera to ticket people driving through red lights?

To: John Carragher who wrote (128366)	7/29/2005 7:24:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

I also support traffic cameras for intersections... give you tickets out to drivers going through red lights ,, also give tickets out for speeders. just send them automatic through the mail. I don't support that. If they get your license plate they haven't proved that you committed any crime. They don't know that you where the driver. Also in some jurisdictions they reduced the length of yellow lights to try and get more revenue from these systems. That probably makes things more dangerous not less. Then there is the fact that as long as speed limits are often too low I can't really support aggressive action on enforcing them. Maybe having cameras that give tickets to people going massively over the speed limit and ignore everyone else, but I doubt that once the cameras are up that they will stick to this limit (assuming it was ever accepted in the first place which probably isn't likely) Tim