:stare:
How's this for creepy?
Driving from VA into MD on Thurs., I found myself staring directly into a hand-held video camera. A state trooper, MD, was standing on the road at a light, filming directly into the front windows of cars that stopped on red. This was on a secondary commercial road. I instinctively gave a dopey smile, and he backed off when I lowered the window. The light turned so I never learned what was the idea. Checking for acne? Somehow, I doubt it.
Sounds like an experiment to see how people will react to such
invasions of privacy -- remember, Roe vs. Wade became "law"
because the Supreme Court "found" the principle of "right to
privacy" in the Constitution, so now, how does that effect the
unconstitutionality of all these unreasonable searches and
perhaps even seizures of personal property and even your person
(NSA at the airport)? One would think there would be continuity,
but tyranny is capricious and arbitrary - they apply principles when
they good and well feel like it and when they don't, then they don't.
That means it's not a nation of laws but a nation of tyrants using
laws or not using them as they choose.
And now there is new technology to screen license plates and all kinds of information comes up.
There are spy vehicles, basically, police cars that look entirely like
regular passenger cars or SUVs, but they are actually cruisers with
all the lights and power to pull you over and write you up, or call in
the reserves when necessary. The flashing red and blue and orange
lights are hidden in the headlights and tail lights, and maybe in a
narrow panel at the top and/or bottom of the front and/or rear
windshield, and in the front and/or back of the side view mirrors.
This way, they can sneak up on you when you think you're not
being followed, and they can catch you unawares going 66 in a
65 zone, or daring to change lanes without making a turn signal
when there's nobody nearby who would care, or make a "rolling
stop" at a stop sign with no cross traffic, or drive a little too
slowly (somehow "speed limit" now means "speed requirement"),
or if your car sways right or left such that a critical observer has
the impression that you are 'weaving' when maybe it's just that
your shocks are worn out and the car sways a bit more than
a new car does, or "straddling lanes" when you're trying to stay
away from bicycles or cars stopped along the shoulder of the
road or even avoid a road hazard that you thought was there
even if it only appeared to be there and maybe wasn't.
There are many reasons they can pull you over.
And the day that being Catholic becomes illegal (and you can be
pretty sure it will be under the Antichrist or maybe even before
then, as a warm-up to his abominable abuse of power) will be
the day that you ought to have already been aware of these
things, which is the whole point of my OP -- awareness.
I'm not surprised that there are members who think they're
somehow above being aware of these things.
I know of, and I have had, several experiences of unreasonable
search and seizure based usually on a prank informant's phone
call, but not always. For the moment, the excuse they're using
is suspicion of a security risk, or, that is, suspected terrorism.
All they have to say is that if you're too militant a Catholic, then
it looks like you're a terrorist. But a lot of Resistance Catholics
don't want to be militant anyway, so this is another excuse not
to be so.
:confused1:
They can run my license all they want. I have no criminal record, no moving violations, am not on Facebook or social media other than CI. I don't have any loans, lawsuits, own anything of value, owe any money, accept any form of govt. welfare...I don't belong to political parties, or even claim tax exemptions for donations at church. If I give money, it's known to God, not the I.R.S. About all I could be hauled in for is going to Mass--but that's not happening yet.
Don't tell me I didn't try to warn you.