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6.4.08 @ 12:01AM

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The electronic bleeps and alarms are emitted from the reader when the two infrared cameras scan license plates at a rate of between 15 to 25 per second, the company said.

Images of those plate numbers are sent to a database in the car trunk and compared to a digital list of vehicles wanted for various crimes, traffic violations, reported stolen cars and vehicles linked to Amber Alerts for kidnapped children, authorities said.

Good article! Now I know why the city of Wilkes Barre, Pa. decided to use the $1,000,000.00 they recently received as their share of the taxes paid by the new Mohegan Sun Casino next door and used it to purchase a surveillance camera system instead of putting it to use repairing the atrocious roads they have in the city.

It's a start! Even little towns have big time aspirations!

Of course, the only thing the cameras will show will be empty streets. Most people will be at the Casino or in the huge, nearby Mall, both of which are outside the City's very small geographical limits.

And the City's population and businesses will continue to decline.
-- Bob Keiser
(Just outside of and going there less frequently)
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

I'm surprised that Hampton Child Protective Services didn't also show up to "rescue" Vered's 13-year-old granddaughter. The Gestapo wannabes were, perhaps, unprepared for that eventuality. That would indicate that Vered and company do not comprise a Christian religious sect nor is her gallery designated as a "compound." Otherwise, I shudder to think what may have transpired.

Is there a new sheriff in town? Or something? Might behoove all of us to stay on top of such changes of command. New guys -- or gals -- always seem to be in need of proving something. Whatever it may be.
-- Dennis Sevakis
Bloomfield, Michigan

Dan should consider himself lucky that the police didn't shoot his dog. And Vered should consider herself lucky that she didn't end up face down in a pool of her own blood. Lest some of your readers think that I'm being excessively dramatic, I have seen videos of police doing just those things to people (and dogs) who surely didn't deserve it.
--Bryan Frymire
Louisville, Kentucky

Apologies are not enough -- the termination of every big-talking Chief Wiggum-wannabe, up to and including the actual "Chief" of this goon squad, should be demanded by every citizen of Long Island. Additionally, public dissemination of each arrogant blowhards' home address and the name of any slattern reprobate enough to become their spouse, and their place of employment, should be immediately forthcoming, followed by a vigorous public campaign to harass any such employer unmercifully until said spouse is unemployed, as well as identifying and shunning/barring their entire families from any social gathering and public establishment. This should explicitly include parents, siblings and, most importantly, children -- "sorry, Timmy, you're not welcome to play with my children -- anywhere -- because your father is a disgusting power-craving bully who should be enforcing dress codes in Tehran rather than living in a civilized society. Now get off my porch and don't ever come back." Ostracism and embarrassment can still be powerful tools, if we have the guts to use them without pause.
-- P. Jacobs

MY CAP'S OFF TO YOU
Re: Larry Thornberry's Cap and Destroy:

It amazes and saddens me that the global warming sham can exist in today's information age. Are conservatives so weak (or the left so strong) that the left can push this hoax through despite reality?

If cap and trade becomes law, the big tax increase will fund the Left's redistribution ideology and welfare state and it will never be undone because the tax will be used for further government entitlements. It will be a crushing blow to fiscal conservatism.
-- Carl Harris
San Antonio, Texas

I think the best name for this act should be the Cheap Fossil Fuel for India and China act. Think those nations will join our economic suicide pact? The Green-Fascists don't know what a carbon footprint is yet. Never mind the destruction of their precious ecologies. I suppose we can look forward to the good will and generosity of the UN to ameliorate the sudden transition to Third World status. Right?
-- Stephen Knewtson
Pullman, Washington

THE SHIP IS SINKING
Re: Juan Carlos Hidalgo's Beyond Castro:

Letter to the Editor

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