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Special Report
Another Good Idea From Arizona
Unplug the traffic cameras – a.k.a. Napolitano’s folly.
As Arizona’s new immigration law continues to send liberals into unintelligible hysterics, a state law enforcement agency has taken another step that ought to keep them upset for at least a few more days. This week, the Arizona Department of Safety notified its speeding camera contractor that the controversial program will be discontinued this summer.
In September of 2008, Arizona contracted with a company called Redflex to set up cameras on state highways and photograph vehicles that hit a speed at least 11 miles per hour faster than the posted limit. It was the first state in the nation to use cameras to ticket speeders on state highways. The move was, of course, a revenue-raising measure. Each vehicle’s registered owner would receive in the mail a ticket for $181.50.
But it didn’t work as planned. The New York Times reported this past January that revenues were far short of expectations, in part because people simply refused to pay the tickets. In their first year, the cameras generated 700,000 tickets, which made the scheme a victim of its own success. In Arizona, if a person ignores a ticket received in the mail, process servers have 120 days to serve the ticket in person. If they don’t, it is invalidated.
With 700,000 tickets to keep up with, the state couldn’t possibly serve each recipient. When people found out they could ignore the tickets with no consequences, what would have been $127 million in revenue for the state shrank to only $36.8 million, according to the Times.
The tickets might not have slowed drivers, but they did slow the wheels of justice. The courts were clogged with citizens challenging their tickets. Which means that a plot to use the justice system to raise revenue wound up hampering justice. And that is important because the speed camera scheme was initiated by then-Gov. Janet Napolitano, now U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. She had planned to raise $120 million a year with those 100 cameras.
Tickets generated by the cameras bought significantly lower fines than tickets issued by an officer on the scene — $181.50 vs. $320. And the camera-generated tickets put no points on a driver’s license. Clearly, this wasn’t about getting dangerous drivers off the road. It was about money. Napolitano, facing a budget deficit, thought this would help close it.
The program was so unpopular , though, that citizens were able to get a ballot initiative to repeal it this November. No, that doesn’t really capture the depth of anger people felt at having their driving habits monitored statewide by Big Brother. Let me try again. The program was so unpopular that it inspired people to sabotage the cameras. One guy donned a monkey mask to repeatedly set the cameras off. Another smashed one to pieces. There were reports of lenses being covered with Post-It notes and Silly String.
Thanks to public resistance, the cameras will be removed on July 16, the day after the two-year contract with the operator expires. Opponents can claim a victory won with civil disobedience. And a monkey mask.
As for national ramifications, officials in other states might be discouraged from attempting to balance their budgets with speed cameras anytime soon. Red light cameras continue to proliferate (they go statewide in Florida soon if Gov. Charlie Crist doesn’t veto a bill just passed to allow that). States and municipalities hungry for revenue in this recession would love to have it without raising taxes, and these types of automatic ticketing schemes are popular with lots of politicians. A failure of the nation’s first experiment with speed cameras could at least slow the expansion somewhat.
There is even a Washington angle to all of this, and that is this. It says something about the Obama administration that the president would elevate the creator of this outrageous law enforcement scheme to head the Department of Homeland Security, but would denounce Arizona’s effort to have its officers enforce long-standing federal immigration laws. The president sees nothing wrong with using the criminal justice system as a vice to squeeze money from citizens, but thinks it’s terrible for citizens to demand that the system be used catch, process and return illegal immigrants.
About the Author
Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. His Twitter ID is @Drewhampshire.
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MoeBlotz| 5.7.10 @ 7:44AM
Were illegal aliens caught speeding with the Arizona camera system subject to the same fine as Americans?
Eric Cartman| 5.7.10 @ 9:38AM
No. They were given an emergency pack of food stamps, bottled water, a map to Federal Housing and a job cutting the Phoenix Suns lawns and washing their Bentleys. I mean, ticketing them would be racial profiling.
Sam| 5.7.10 @ 1:26PM
This line of comments really bugs me. Can we please stop acting like liberals are supportive of everything evil and conservatives of everything good? I am a left-leaning centrist and I think getting rid of those AZ cameras is long overdue. They should have gotten rid of them long ago. So stop simplifying the issue and pretending that all non-conservatives everywhere want to screw you.
Liberals are generally not bad people- but a few clowns named Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton, Olbermann, Maddow, Boxer, and Dodd give them all a bad name.
Nick| 5.7.10 @ 1:38PM
Sam,
Maybe I can clear this up for you.
I posted this in another thread:
***THE TENETS OF THE MODERN LIBERAL MOVEMENT***
Pro-abortion/Anti-family
Pro-euthanasia/Anti-living
Pro-death/Anti-life
Pro-homosexuality/Anti-marriage
Pro-sodomy/Anti-chastity
Pro-pornography/Anti-modesty
Pro-perversion/Anti-virtue
Pro-criminal/Anti-gun
Pro-crime/Anti-law enforcement
Pro-perjury/Anti-truth
Pro-socialism/Anti-commerce
Pro-despotism/Anti-freedom
Pro-Arab/Anti-Israel
Pro-Islam/Anti-Christian
Pro-pagan/Anti-God
Pro-Satan/Anti-Christ
The main reason people are "liberal", is because of licentiousness. Most of these sexual libertines just want to cheat on their spouse or engage in extra-marital relations.
But, a significant number are practitioners of a multitude of vile and disgusting sexual perversions. To justify their own immorality, they embrace others. This way, they can escape the charge of "hypocrite."
This is why the democrat party is a coalition.
Race-baiters ally themselves with homos, who ally themselves with tree-huggers, who ally themselves with atheists, etcetera, etcetera.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.7.10 @ 7:50PM
Nick: You're spot on with your "Tenets" list!! I'm sure you have plenty more for that list, but the ones you posted here today, spotlight a few of the Left's most contemptible and vile ideas, that they like to call core beliefs. Liberals suck, and they know it!!
Nick| 5.8.10 @ 1:27AM
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies,
Thanks!
Yes, I had more. But I thought that covered the main tenets. And the list of perversion was getting long!
Nick| 5.12.10 @ 1:01AM
I just realized there is a glaring omission in my list of liberal tenets:
Pro-terrorist/Anti-American
I apologize for this obvious failure.
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:30PM
One good turn deserves another:
***THE TENETS OF THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT***
Anti-Family/Pro-step children
Anti-Living/Pro-murder of soldiers
Anti-Life/Pro-Stem Cell Limitations
Anti-Women/Pro-Sexist
Anti-Black/Pro-Racist
Anti-Hispanic/Pro-Racist
Anti-Gay/Pro-Psycho
Anti-Environment/Pro-Oil
Anti-Marriage/Pro-Divorce
Anti-Child/Pro-Pedophiles
Anti-Chastity/Pro-prostitution
Anti-Modesty/Pro-Lesbian Bondage Bars
Anti-Virtue/Pro-vice (see Anti-Chastity)
Anti-Gun Law/Pro-violence
Anti-Law/Pro-papers please
Anti-Constitution/Pro-Torture
Anti-Founders/Pro-Conservative
Anti-Frugal/Pro-Deficit
Anti-Tax/Pro-Borrow
Anti-Social Security/Pro-Elder Abuse
Anti-Medicare/Pro-Death Panels
Anti-truth/Pro-secrecy
Anti-Commerce/Pro-fascism
Anti-Freedom/Pro-Tea Bagger
Anti-Israel/Pro-Nazi
Anti-Education/Pro-Tea Bagger
Anti-Liberty/Pro-Corporate
Anti-Christian/Pro-poverty
Anti-God/Pro-witch doctor
Anti-Christ/Pro-Cheney
As you can see the Republican Party has no coalition ... enough said....
1FreeMan| 5.7.10 @ 11:47PM
Hey look. This is the newest troll posting on every threat cussing republicnas and conservitives.
American Spectatio. Please review this trolls IEP address. Probably old dirty DM back again.
Go away.
Nick| 5.8.10 @ 12:06AM
PurpleJackass,
What a bunch of incoherent gibberish.
I'll bet it took you all day to come up with this drivel.
I guess I hit a little too close to home, huh?
Good!
Son Of Sam| 5.8.10 @ 10:00AM
well of course he has "all day" to come up with this list.... I mean, you don't think he actually WORKS for a living, do you? Other than this list, he has very little else to but wait for mommie to come home and wash his panties and make dinner for him
stand strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam
Donald Lucas| 5.8.10 @ 9:50AM
You, sir, are a coward, liar and nothing more than a Progressive/Socialist/Communists propagandist (you pick the label, the doctrine is the same). I do agree with one thing. The Republican Party is as dysfunctional and dishonest as the Socialist/Communist Democrats. American voters are finally educating themselves and will send Republican turncoats packing as well. You don't even have the guts to put your name on that Godless diatribe you posted. Purpleguy?? Commiecreep would be more appropriate.
AmenBro| 5.8.10 @ 6:48PM
Thanks for proving why HEMORRHOIDS are dark purple,,ahhh,,guy.
Psychodad| 5.9.10 @ 12:59PM
Wow. Pathetic. Just pathetic.
2/10
JimE| 5.9.10 @ 6:15PM
Purpletard,
You are a poor mis-guided shithead, better hurry up, obama will be flushing soon and you'll miss dinner.
SierraBear| 5.10.10 @ 3:58PM
Dear Purpletroll...I find one omission on your behalf.
Anti-Purpleguy and his ilk/Pro-Truth
Doug Lee| 5.7.10 @ 2:08PM
"Can we please stop acting like liberals are supportive of everything evil and conservatives of everything good?"
First, can we please stop acting like "left leaning centrist" has a different meaning than "Liberal," and that "Liberal" has a different meaning than "Progressive," and that any of these labels has a different meaning than "evil"?
Donald Lucas| 5.8.10 @ 9:28AM
Any member of the Democratic Party can affix any label to themselves they wish as freedom of speech applies to every citizen of America. However, one label cannot be denied for anyone who is a member of, or a supporter of, the Democratic Party. Control of the Democratic Party has been hijacked by "Progressives." "Progressives" are undeniably "Socialists." Socialism is COMMUNISM straight up! Ergo, all Democrats and their supporters are Communist sympathizers and supporters. Not ONE Democrat, or ONE Republican (as far as I know), has had the moral and physical courage to stand up in the presence of Americans and challenge the Communist Democratic Party that is intent on destroying America and her Constitution. You are what you support Mr. Lee, and the "Fundamental Change" Obama promised is the ONLY promise the man has kept. Did you think you would ever see the day that you would support a Communist government in America Mr. Lee? I know very well that there are Progressives who call themselves Conservatives in both political parties in America. What both major parties had best understand is NO status quo politician will fool American conservatives and Constitutionalists for long anymore. Their days are numbered. We intend to take this country back and return America to the Constitutional rule of law. I prefer liberating America with BALLOTS, Mr. Lee, beginning this coming November. However, if BALLOTS do not work we will have to accomplish that goal another way. BUT...ACCOMPLISH THAT GOAL WE WILL!!
Acornholio| 5.7.10 @ 2:13PM
Good, go take the shirt off someone else's back for a while.
Roy Mustang| 5.7.10 @ 7:02PM
Liberals believe they can spend my money better than I can. They call me selfish when I refuse to happily hand over my hard earned money so that they can spend it on their pet entitlement programs. Does that make them evil?
Maybe not. But it does make them grade A jerks.
chuck| 5.9.10 @ 9:24AM
@Sam -- Yes, and who, I might ask, elected those clowns? It wasn't conservatives.
SoBe Conservative| 5.9.10 @ 9:32AM
Sam: liberal/progressive/socialist idealogy KILLS PEOPLE. See Nazi/USSR/Mao/present day UK and French hospitals. some US liberals may have good intentions but that doesn't help you when you are dead. get a brain.
enemaofthestatistquo| 5.9.10 @ 4:39PM
Your list of a few clowns id way to short say by 54 million voters.
Alan Brooks| 5.8.10 @ 2:50AM
"I mean, ticketing them would be racial profiling."
And harm their wittle SELF ESTEEM.
Alan Brooks| 5.9.10 @ 10:48PM
I say:
"Latinos are [relatively speaking] very pleasant--
but when there are too many of them in America they will not seem so pleasant anymore."
Donald Lucas| 5.8.10 @ 8:56AM
My expectation of what would occur when an illegal alien got a speeding ticket from one of the cameras would go like this: The illegal alien "speeder" would RECEIVE a check for $320.00 hand delivered by none other than Janet Napolitano ALONG WITH all the other stuff Eric Cartman describes in his Post. Keep in mind at all times: "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH...REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND...REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH!!!
Flee| 5.7.10 @ 3:10PM
It would be profiling to even think of penalizing any action of an illegal alien in AZ. What were you thinking?
Eric Cartman| 5.7.10 @ 6:11PM
And another thing, MoeBlotz, if that is your real name, how dare you even bring this subject up! It's RACIST is what it is! Have you ever had to push your 14 year old, 80 pound, 9-month pregnant, uneducated wife/girlfriend over a 12 foot fence to get into this country? And once you plopped over, find a Catholic church or priest so you can squeeze into the church van with the 32 other 14 year old, 80 pound, 9-month pregnant, uneducated wives/girlfriends to go to one of the many bankrupt American hospitals in the area to squirt out an anchor baby? Have you, Mr. Blotz?! I think not!
And have you ever had to sit in line with 2 or 3 hundred other 14 year old, 65 pound, uneducated new mothers with your new baby and your other 5 children to receive food stamps, housing , health care, heating and electric assistance and WIC? Well, Mr. Blotz? Do you know how hard it is to wait in line with your hand out? Probably not, because all you have ever done was work, work, work!
So you get angry because the middle class has their schools crammed to the rafters with non-English speaking illegals and their hospitals shut down and their jails over burdened?! Well boo-frickin-hoo, Mr. I Don't Want To Ruin The Country and My Children's Future! We're the Democrat Party and we are running things, so get used to it! Viva Obama!
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.7.10 @ 7:48PM
Eric: "Have you ever had to push your 14 year old, 80 pound, 9-month pregnant, uneducated wife/girlfriend over a 12 foot fence to get into this country?"
Well not yet, but I think it may feel something like being one of the 64 Paratroopers squeezed into a C-130 with full combat gear on, praying for the doors to open, and the green light to come on, so that they can jump out to breath once again. I know this well, because I just smashed into the ground again last night, after breaking out of that torture chamber, that the U.S. Air Force likes to call a plane. So if their journey is only half as bad as mine was last night, then they deserve a monthly welfare check, a new house, a new car, free healthcare, and a college education for that "new precious" citizen, that they just went through all that grief to bring here. You are a true crusader for the ignored and destitute among us, who keep pouring over our borders, just to have a shot at the American Dream. And the American Dream by the way, is not offered in down there in Mexico, otherwise, it would be called the Mexican Dream, and I've never heard of that.
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:35PM
Well said... some here have no problem picking on the downtrodden and least among us... fine Christian values they display.
Eric CArtman| 5.7.10 @ 11:26PM
It's Purplehead! So, how are your days off? Listen, I think it was really mean of your co-workers to point out your shortcomings that way. And then to have it spread on Drudge! Must be embarrassing. Oh, um, in case y'all didn't get Purplehead's story: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a.....1tsa1.html
Just sad, Purplehead, sad. Well, hope every little thing works out for ya.
Homer Simpson| 5.7.10 @ 11:38PM
Yeah, you jerk! Purplehead is right! It's America's fault these people are destitute! Mexico can't be held responsible for their own people! Why, they can't even put together a glass of clean water, so how can they be expected to take care of their own people?
Have you ever seen these illegals hanging off the back of a smelly garbage truck in Houston, Tx. when its 105 degrees and 98% humidity? Ya know what they're thinking? They're thinking, Man, I'm glad I'm not in Mexico! That place really sucks!
That's what they are thinking! And you why Mexico sucks worse than the back of a smelly garbage truck in 105 degree heat? Because America stole all the good stuff in Mexico! We stole the roads, the farms, the industry, the "How to Make Clean Water" instructions! That's why!
Thank God for people like Purplehead who are willing to give 70% of his money and his home to a family of illegal aliens who have 4th grade educations and 27 kids. You go, girlfriend. And, sorry to hear about your small problem at work.
AmenBro| 5.8.10 @ 6:53PM
Problem is Purple
You cant's pull the skin back on your own codpiece much less speak for the downtrodden.
Hows the air up there in your Flatulent Moral Highground fraud.
George F| 5.9.10 @ 4:16PM
I can only think you are joking when it is so simple for illegals to apply for one of the unlimited number of work permits available. Do you know why they don't apply? It's because in their uneducated stupor they think the U.S. really belongs to Mexico and owes them a living.
I've had to work with illegals when I lived in Phoenix so I know this firsthand.
Liz| 5.8.10 @ 3:41AM
Eric Cartman, I find your comments about mexican women crude and demeaning. For your information, these illegal border cossers are educated , they may not be collegiate but they do have the basics -plus many are bilingual or are trying to be. Being able to speak fluently in another language is quite an accomplishment-have you mastered another language? They are not 14 years old and pregnant.... Your overdramatic portrait of the illegal only suggests that you have a low view of both women and mexicans-maybe even humanlife. "Squirt out an anchor baby??"- That shows real respect for the miracle of birth.
My best friend throughout my elementary and highschool years was in this country illegally. I've lived in the southwest all of my life and I wholeheartedly agree we need to contain our border with Mexico. Not everyone who comes across our borders is just trying to make a better life. However many do want to come and to keep the peace, and to value these lovely people who still think America is great and want to start a new life here, we must enforce our border policies. Once there isn't a way to get in,or it isn't profitable for them or US companies -or private citizens- they will come in the legal route.
Eric Cartman| 5.8.10 @ 11:02AM
Sure would be nice if Mexico cleaned up its act and would support their citizens, don't ya think? Or is it now our job to fix Mexico?
Let me ask ya, Liz, why is Canada (snowy, cold, giant, empty Canada) a first world country when Mexico (warm, beautiful beaches, chock full of oil and minerals and a giant customer base) a third world nation?
And why, pray tell, do they feel compelled to send a large sector of their population over our border? What could it possible be?
And how come my wife gets to spend thousands of dollars and be separated from her children and go through the grief that she does and still cannot get he kids here even after being married to an American citizen (I will also throw in veteran) for 5 years, while Mexicans get a big fluffy pillow to land on and a chunk of my money when the plop over our border in the middle of the night to miraculously, get ready for it, "squirt out an anchor baby"? And I get to pay for that, too. All courtesy of the Democrat Party so they can steal more elections and put us deeper into debt(the Republitards are just as bad).
I don't see the fairness here that liberals love to prattle on about.
Eric Cartman| 5.8.10 @ 11:20AM
Oh, had to address one thing here:
"-plus many are bilingual or are trying to be" Um, really? Can you tell that to the guy who wakes me up every Monday and Friday mornings with his leaf blower? The guy who cut our cable and phone lines with a hedger. Because he can't understand a lick of English - and he's been doing this for two years!
Eric Cartman| 5.9.10 @ 10:08AM
Well, Liz, if these people who sneak over our border are fine, upstanding, law abiding, sober, salt of the earth, Jose's, can you please explain this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGqPo5ofk0s
And this is from a supposed American! I'm sick of people not understanding that there is an invasion going on here. Ya know what they teach kids in Mexico? They teach them that we stole Mexico and so it is acceptable to come here to repopulate it. The scumbags actually teach that - like the terrorists Palestinians teach their hateful offspring that Jews stole their land.
So your best friend growing was an illegal. Well, I guess that seals it, then. We should open our borders. I mean, that is such a powerful argument, who can resist that logic.
martin j smith| 5.7.10 @ 7:55AM
You know you are probably on the right track if the Democrat Left and their fellow travleers get upset about your ideas,laws etc. The best thing that can be done is to challenge the Democrat Party with the truth about the law. Never forget: Democrat Party lies, people die.
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:39PM
You mean like the 4000+ that have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, or do you mean the 2800 that died on 9/11 while Bush was asleep at the switch? Or do you mean the 150+ that died to secure the Oil in the Persian Gulf under Papa Bush? Or do you mean the 200+ soldiers asleep in their barracks when Reagan sent them to Beirut? Or did you mean the 20,000+ that died after Nixon bombed Cambodia instead of ending Viet Nam.
Tell me again - which Party lies and people die?
Nick| 5.8.10 @ 1:22AM
Pay no attention to PurpleJackass folks.
He doesn't even know that Virginia governors don't run for re-election because they can only serve one term, then have to wait 4 years to run again.
He also likes to berate others for spelling "hypocrisy" wrong, and in the same post he wrote "hypocrit", like a moron.
He is not worthy of debate with grown-ups.
Roscoe| 5.7.10 @ 8:44AM
Another fine example of the system working.
Louis Jenkins| 5.7.10 @ 8:49AM
American justice parlayed by a Donkey Mask, post it notes, and silly string. What a hoot. It has turned American justice into what it has become-just another method to raise some money, whoop the deficit, and make Arizona a land of milk and honey. As far as the illegals goes, no they weren't fined for speeding. First you have to have a driver's license and since the tickets weren't served in person, well, you get the picture. Another useless piece of American garbage.
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:40PM
Where's the outrage over the scofflaws that vandalized State property? You sanction that? Hypocrites.
Curly Smith| 5.7.10 @ 8:49AM
How 'bout we gather up those cameras, and likely the others that will be removed around the country, and put them in Congressional and Legislative meeting rooms so we can watch what the politicians are up to? Maybe with the video record the politicians wouldn't have to "approve the bill to find out what's in it"? If they're some left over then we can outfit the Washington Press Corp(se) and they can start reporting on the President's activities. The lack of reporting is just a lack of equipment right? Oh, it is lack of equipment but it's not cameras...
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:41PM
They already are Einstein - it's called C-SPAN... Good Lord - we are seeing the dumbing down of America right in front of our eyes.
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Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.8.10 @ 8:02PM
Nah Purp, That's just your reflection, when you're looking in the mirror!! I know it's hard to handle, but that black emptiness of a soul, that's looking back at you, it's not your fault, it's your parents fault, for not following the Democratic Party's playbook, by going straight to the nearest Planned Parenthood when they had the chance. They regret missing that appointment now (they told me)!! But I'm glad they did Purp, because you provide us with some great laughs here at TAS!! And it's really nice of you to acknowledge how smart Curly Smith really is, but calling her Einstein? Come on now, she's smart, but she's obviously not on the level of a theoretical physicist, or is she?
Dasboot| 5.7.10 @ 10:10AM
Good article. But this is no surprise. Obama has nothing but contempt for America. And Janet the dyke Napalatono is a moron.
blarset| 5.7.10 @ 11:04AM
Good Arizona is shaping up to be the center of rational thinking in the country . The issues surrounding them will help the debate in the coming months about the direction of the politics for both parties.No way can Obama and the dems run to the right this election- No body is gonna buy that lie its not credible," no- mo"!
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:44PM
Yep, can't wait, John McCain is standing at 10% approval of Arizona Hispanics and that Governor of Arizona is at 9% approval. Yep, bring 'er on. And say Good bye to California, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Texas for good ... just give it a few years and the Democratic Party will be in permanent control.
Tim*| 5.7.10 @ 11:23PM
" However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 25% have a favorable view of those who marched and protested for immigrant rights in major cities. Fifty percent (50%) hold an unfavorable opinion and another 26% are not sure.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters still favor legislation like Arizona's that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose such a law. Those figures are virtually unchanged from a week ago. "
George S| 5.7.10 @ 11:45AM
I once got a red light camera ticket, where the local government sent me a picture of my license plate in the mail. I promptly mailed back the summons with a picture of my money.
RAMIII| 5.7.10 @ 12:36PM
Think of the tax dollars wasted on this ridiculous venture. Hopefully the contractor profited anyway.
The Department of Homeland Security is a joke.
Nixon created the EPA and OSHA.
Bush created DHS and TSA.
With friends like this we don't need enemies.
Doug Lee| 5.7.10 @ 2:10PM
Well said!
Campy| 5.7.10 @ 12:55PM
Nearly $2 million worth (cost including return of fines) of red-light cameras in my town were recently turned off stemming from a lawsuit brought by a former state trooper and reviewed by the Missouri Supreme Court.
The cameras were all about the money. The city slashed yellow-light warning time, attempted to circumvent due process and procedure in municipal court by using administrative hearings instead (what the Court took issue with), and as no points were assessed was not really about 'safety' at all. A class-action lawsuit is now seeking the return of $803,000 in fines to citizens.
Had it been about safety first and foremost, one of the simplest, cheapest methods would have been extending yellow light time by even a second, or up the delay on the red to green time.
DTCOFAZ| 5.7.10 @ 1:12PM
Obama and Janet's opinions and attitude gave me the impression that they hate AZ and they anti-American. They do whatever they can in their power to comfort our enemies - either terrorists or illegal immigrants/drug cartels/human smugglings and murders.
Paul from SA| 5.7.10 @ 1:43PM
Cameras are much cheaper and safer than paying union police to stand on the curb in the hot sun looking for traffic violators.
Let robots do it. Robots don't need salaries, benefits and pensions. And they don't file racial lawsuits.
Bad driving is function of enforcement.
Anthony| 5.7.10 @ 3:36PM
The juxtaposition of the governments willingness to constantly seek to restict the privacy of its CITIZENS, yet steadfastly refuse to enforce existing laws as to ILLEGAL immigrants, defies all logic and rationality.
Bravo to Arizona on both its immigration policy and its decision to respect the privacy of its citizens, unlike the authoritarians in Washington.
Memo to the authoritarians in Washington: We know why you are doing the above, we will respond in kind in November.
RAMIII| 5.7.10 @ 4:09PM
You are correct in your assessment of the situation and with your response.
Only remember that logic and rational thought never wins over emotion.
Let them FEEL the shock of being voted out of office in November.
Allen Hanson| 5.7.10 @ 4:29PM
Mr. Cline,
Excellent article, but you got caught out by a homphone. A "vice" is a sin or petty crime; a "vise" is a large, very strong device used to clamp and hold things immobile, which I think is what you meant.
Purpleguy| 5.7.10 @ 10:46PM
I think you mean a homonym, don't you?
Tim*| 5.7.10 @ 11:48PM
Homonym : a word the same as another in sound and " spelling " but different in meaning, as chase “to pursue” and chase “to ornament metal.”
Dean from Ohio| 5.7.10 @ 11:56PM
Nope. I thought so too, previously. Check out the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
Nick| 5.8.10 @ 1:18AM
Don't you know how to use Dictionary.com, before you post PurpleJackass?
What a moron.
John Navratil| 5.7.10 @ 4:34PM
Notice that the first question an officer asks when you are pulled over is if there is an emergency, the one excuse for driving over the limit. I'm not for a moment arguing that there were 700,000 emergencies, but rather that these systems are in place to provide order among thinking people exercising their judgement. This mechanized approach to enforcement permits no judgement, at all. Combine this with a NHTSA study almost twenty year ago which concluded that MOST speed limits were set too low and you get tyranny.
Forget the boot on BP's neck. It's on ours.
John Navratil| 5.7.10 @ 4:44PM
For those interested, the abstract of the study to which I referred can be found at: http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 5.7.10 @ 8:24PM
Imagine if this policy went nationwide (and it just might)? Every commuter, trudging back and forth to work everyday, would receive at least one speeding ticket each week (because commuters speed, don't you know?). And being the suckers that American working people always are, they'd have to pay these "fair" Government fines, and they would, just so that they could keep the privilege of continuing to commute to their "Capitalistic" jobs, everyday, every week, year after year, for many decades straight. So that maybe, just maybe, one day, they "might" be able to retire for a few years in a nursing home down in Florida. These rich everyday commuting workers, with their dreams of a comfortable retirement someday, won't mind paying a little extra money to their wonderfully frugal State treasury's, now would they? Nah!! They'll love it!! Let's implement this revenue enhancement idea across the Nation immediately, it should be a big hit with the suckers!!
societyis2blame| 5.8.10 @ 2:24AM
Napolitano's "hear no evil see no evil" policy of border enforcement, cynically-manipulative attempts to redirect anti-terror resources against "militias" and knee-jerk pronouncements about suspects "acting alone" without supporting evidence are all the reason we need to demand her removal. Her crass "ticketing the state out of bankruptcy" strategy barely rates in comparison, for all that it's sleazy.
This woman is such a walking national security threat that Janet Reno would be a significant improvement. At best she's a useful idiot for the enemy, at worst a fellow traveler.
Oh, and about that "man-caused disasters" thing....
roger rocks | 5.8.10 @ 9:59AM
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Anthony| 5.8.10 @ 1:57PM
What a team Obama and Napolitano make!! Their first disaster together was what I called " Abbott and Costello meet al Queda".
They have produced their sequel, "Abbott and Costello ; fun time at the Border"
God help us with what's coming next from these clueless morons.
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Its amazing how neocon philosophy has gotten so twisted that in one essay you link the ultra-right wing paranoia of Arizona to the "marxist-commie-nazi-fascist 'regime'" of the Obama administration.
Can we move past this neo-con notion that 1/2 of America (the left) needs to be "defeated" and start working on real solutions to our problems?
Nick| 5.9.10 @ 11:09AM
No.
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John II| 5.11.10 @ 10:11PM
"You can't enforce a law that goes against the will of the majority. There's a name for those who try to do so: they're called tyrants."
--Paladin
Matt | 5.21.10 @ 4:30PM
Is the Mexican Police doing more on the border than the US?
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