News and Politics | August 19, 2008 | 23 comments

Anger over New York plans for license plate tracking system

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7569485.stm

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New York Commissioner Ray Kelly feels that New York needs new license plate tracking system that records license plates for thirty days to 'fight terror'. Residents feel the invasive measures are akin to living in a Communist police state.
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23 comments // Anger over New York plans for license plate tracking system

  • mo1y
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      mo1y  

    • This will only hurt honest people. Crooks will figular a way around it.

      It is just big brother getting more and more into our personal lives.

      It's interesting that you can smuggle a tank and a platoon across the mexican boarder, but have to take your shoes of to be inspected at the airport.

      Anyway if the terriorest want to attack america again then they would have already. America is too big, too free, and the terriorest have all the money they need.

    • 3 years ago
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • Let us not forget that some PR Media individuals use that little trick of maximizing issues and shift it somewhere else so the real issue would look not so important and less accountable. It is just one of the language tricks of denial. It is amazing how many people will follow through. This current war was started my "Maximizing" tactics.

      Should we start to pay more attention to the urban issues promoted by gangs that affect everyone's quality of life?

    • 3 years ago
  • mjsmith11
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      mjsmith11  

    • Why is the BBC reporting this? Driving your car is a privilege, not a right. If you don't want your plate to be tracked, do not get one. I find this story bizarre though and the idea a big waste of money.

    • 3 years ago
  • asherp
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      asherp  
    • mjsmith11:

      The fourth amendment is a right, though.

      The government has no right to track you, wiretap you, go through your mail, take anything of yours, or arrest you without a warrent for your arrest-- or probable cause- such as shooting a gun in public.

      Driving in New York City is not a criminal act in and of its self, the government has no right to treat you like a criminal.

      This measure is unconstitutional, an invasion of privacy, an infringement on liberty, and a waste of money.

    • 3 years ago
  • joefac3
  • joefac3
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • asherp, You do not know the reality of the streets as some people do. Sometimes we need to get out of the comfortable chair and stop the denial. Whatever comes first would be a good thing. The real terrorists of today are those going around acoustically harassing the population with their stereos, car alarms, remote control buttons and modified mufflers. Wake up people!

    • 3 years ago
  • rabidlemur
  • stopnoise
  • asherp
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      asherp  
    • stopnoise:

      Denial of what?

      Nobody is killing you with sound.

      Nobody is blowing up buildings or hijacking planes with sound.

      They blow up buildings with explosives, and hijack planes with knives and bombs and stuff.

      Not lawnmowers and car alarms.

    • 3 years ago
  • stopnoise
  • joefac3
  • joefac3
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      joefac3  
    • stopnoise:

      Ten people in the Metropolitan Washington, DC, area were killed and three others were critically injured in the fall of 2002 when two individuals carried out a series of sniper attacks. The two, John Allen Muhammad and his teenaged protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo, were captured and convicted of those murders as well as their preceding, “rehearsal” killings in Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia. John Muhammad, named John Allen until he joined the Nation of Islam, found Lee Malvo in a homeless shelter and informally adopted him, subsequently training Malvo to shoot sniper style.

    • 3 years ago
  • joefac3
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      joefac3  
    • stopnoise:

      William Krar and his common-law wife were caught stockpiling explosives and chemicals, including two pounds pure sodium cyanide, in April 2003. The exact target of the attack was never publicly disclosed, but Krar’s sympathy for the white supremacist movement was reported in the media. Numerous crimes committed by white supremacist sympathizers are underreported, or go entirely unreported.

    • 3 years ago
  • joefac3
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      joefac3  
    • stopnoise:

      Also in New York City, Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay were arrested in August, 2004, for conspiring to detonate a device in New York’s Herald Square subway station. Elshafay, who had entered a guilty plea and testified against Siraj, was sentenced to five years. Siraj received a 30-year sentence.

    • 3 years ago
  • joefac3
  • Gephoria
  • TyMarshal
  • asherp
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • I would agree on the case of privacy if I knew people were not using their cars to abuse and harass others in the City. When I was in New York I was totally turned off by the constant horn sound of cab drivers, the shake of boom cars, the unattended useless car alarms, aircraft noise, trash truck with air horns and some other acoustic issues that prevented me from have a good night sleep. Times have changed. If You want to be respected on your "privacy" You must give respect to others first! Like I said, you are not "free" to abuse and torture others using your vehicle.

    • 3 years ago
  • asherp
  • huntre
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      huntre  
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    • Here's what the NYCLU has to say about this.
      *sings*
      "If I can be seen there, I'll be seen everywhere!
      It's 'cuz of You! New York, New Yooooooooork!"

    • 3 years ago
  • Enjoy_Cannabis
  • asherp
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