{"id":32449,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americas-roads-have-been-turned-into-a-revenue-generating-surveillance-grid-2\/32449\/"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","slug":"americas-roads-have-been-turned-into-a-revenue-generating-surveillance-grid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americas-roads-have-been-turned-into-a-revenue-generating-surveillance-grid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Snyder<\/strong>
The Economic Collapse<\/a>
May 10, 2013<\/p>\n

What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common? They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments. All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt. Many have chosen to use \u201ctraffic enforcement\u201d as a way to raise desperately needed revenue. According to the National Motorist Association, issuing speeding tickets raises somewhere between 4.5 billion and 6 billion dollars in the United States each year. And the average price of a speeding ticket just keeps going up.<\/p>\n

Today, the national average is about $150, but in many jurisdictions it is far higher. For example, more than 16 million traffic tickets are issued in the state of California each year, and the average fine is approximately $250. If you are wealthy that may not be much of a problem, but if you are a family that is barely scraping by every month that can be a major financial setback. Meanwhile, America\u2019s roads are also being systematically transformed into a surveillance grid.<\/p>\n

The number of cameras watching our roads is absolutely exploding, and automated license plate readers are capturing hundreds of millions of data points on all of us. As you drive down the highway, a police vehicle coming up behind you can instantly read your license plate and pull up a whole host of information about you. This happened to me a few years ago. I had pulled on to a very crowded highway in Virginia and within less than a minute a cop car had scanned me and was pulling me over because one of my stickers had expired. But these automated license plate readers are being used for far more than just traffic enforcement now. For example, officials in Washington D.C. are now using automated license plate readers to track the movements of every single vehicle that enters the city. They know when you enter Washington, and they know when you leave. So where is all of this headed? Do we really want to live in a \u201cBig Brother\u201d society where the government constantly tracks all of our movements?<\/p>\n

Back in the old days, the highways of America were great examples <\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on : Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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