Illinois License Plate Cameras Are Violating People's Constitutional Rights, Says New Suit

Yes, it was totally ironic. As said by the Right Wing every time some inner-city dweller complains about yet another 'random' police check.

When police activity is aimed at them, suddenly people don't like it.
That may well be true, but are we supposed to take some kind of consolation out of The Man sticking his fist even further up our asses, just because a few people we don't like are also getting buttfucked? When they act like that, we make fun of them for thinking they've owned the libs.
 
Horses are statistically more dangerous than cars are.

People interact with dangerous stuff all the time.

Got any throw rugs in your house? Those things kill more people each year than ATV's. The made us register ATV's here a few years ago, and yet I don't hear anyone suggesting that we should register throw rugs.
I’d really love to see these statistics you refer to.
 
They’re popping in parts of California in major metropolitan areas. I’ve got no problem with license plate readers being placed along thoroughfares with high accident and fatality rates where people ignore the speed limits. Also in areas where “side shows” are common.
 
Siri, and Alexa are always listening, and again, I bet the people up in arms over the cameras don't think twice about talking to their devices.

One of the creepiest stories I heard was my wife's friend telling us that one night she asked her husband what he wanted for his birthday and he named a specific fishing pole. Couple hours later, she goes online and all over her FB page, her Twitter and even on her e-mail home page she was getting ads for that exact pole.
 
I honestly see no good reason why cars should be registered.

Horses aren't registered. Bicycles aren't registered.

Hell guns aren't registered and the fact that cars are registered is one of the biggest "arguments" for why they should be.
One reason for vehicle registration is for tax purposes. In most states, registration fees theoretically are used to maintain roads. And unlike horses these days, cars are almost exclusively used on public roads.
 
So auto accidents are only a million ahead of right injuries.

Car accidents are a fact of life. In 2020, a total of 35,766 fatal car accidents occurred on roadways across the United States. Another 1,593,390 crashes resulted in injuries and 3,621,681 caused property damage. That means a total of 5,250,837 collisions happened over the course of a single year.[1]

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/car-accident-statistics/
 
Horses are statistically more dangerous than cars are.

People interact with dangerous stuff all the time.

Got any throw rugs in your house? Those things kill more people each year than ATV's. The made us register ATV's here a few years ago, and yet I don't hear anyone suggesting that we should register throw rugs.
What about Tik Tok challengers and the idiot things 'influencers' do? There's one dying on a regular basis for doing stupid shit to get likes and followers.

Darwinism at its finest, and I was happy to hear about the banning of Tik Tok, but of course that was just smoke, and its never going to happen.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/the-20-most-injury-causing-household-products-in-127723785332.html

ATVs: 178
"Carpets, Rugs, and Other Flooring:" 972

Ok, not just throw rugs, but I'm willing to bet that a fair portion of that 972 are. And a lot of those injuries are going to be fractured hips, which is a near-inevitable death sentence in an older victim.
So not only are you comparing things used in public to things used in homes, there are at least a million more car accidents every year than rug accidents.
 
What about Tik Tok challengers and the idiot things 'influencers' do? There's one dying on a regular basis for doing stupid shit to get likes and followers.

Darwinism at its finest, and I was happy to hear about the banning of Tik Tok, but of course that was just smoke, and its never going to happen.
Banning tiktok wouldn't do any good unless they also ban Tor and VPN's, which will only happen if lawmakers can find another way to access their kiddie porn.
 
Siri, and Alexa are always listening, and again, I bet the people up in arms over the cameras don't think twice about talking to their devices.

One of the creepiest stories I heard was my wife's friend telling us that one night she asked her husband what he wanted for his birthday and he named a specific fishing pole. Couple hours later, she goes online and all over her FB page, her Twitter and even on her e-mail home page she was getting ads for that exact pole.
Leave your cell phone on all night lying next to a Spanish-language radio station. In the morning, all your ads will be in Spanish.

Yet another reason for why I don't own a cellphone.
 
So not only are you comparing things used in public to things used in homes, there are at least a million more car accidents every year than rug accidents.
Those are just deaths, not total accidents.

I'm sure that cars are more dangerous, but I'm completely unconvinced that registration really makes them any less dangerous.

Apparently, farm equipment is also unregistered in many states. Didn't know that. Is Old MacDonald more likely to roll-over while bush-hogging because of it?
One reason for vehicle registration is for tax purposes. In most states, registration fees theoretically are used to maintain roads. And unlike horses these days, cars are almost exclusively used on public roads.
Raising gas taxes would be a better way to raise road revenue, since most of the damage is caused by heavy trucks for one thing, and since it would encourage a shift to EV's for another.
 
Those are just deaths, not total accidents.

I'm sure that cars are more dangerous, but I'm completely unconvinced that registration really makes them any less dangerous.

Apparently, farm equipment is also unregistered in many states. Didn't know that. Is Old MacDonald more likely to roll-over while bush-hogging because of it?
No, both are listed.
What are you basing that on?
Farm equipment is not used in public, cars are.
 
No, both are listed.
What are you basing that on?
Farm equipment is not used in public, cars are.
Farm equipment is used in public, actually.

I was recently stuck behind a rather impressive convoy of those gigantic sprayer tractors moving, I guess, from one field to another. Pretty cool, actually.
 
I bet the people up in arms over the cameras don't think twice about talking to their devices.
I won't have one of 'those' devices and most of the other stuff has as much turned off as I can do without.
 
You don’t need to check. In all states and DC vehicles that use public roads must be registered.
https://tractoraddict.com/why-are-tractors-not-titled/
Farm tractors are not titled or registered because they have a lower rate of theft and fraud, compared to motor vehicles. And they don’t use roads, bridges and tunnels regularly so there is no need for the government to tax the owner to maintain these networks.

Farm tractors are exempt from titles and registration in Texas. However, there are some restriction to this exemption. Like, the distance you can drive the farm tractor on public road.

There are tractors that do require titles and registration like commercial tractors for construction purposes. And farm tractors used to mow the lawns alongside freeways. In the United States and Canada these tractors are required to have a title and registration.
Probably a similar explanation exists for why tractors can use "off-road diesel," which doesn't require the same taxes to be paid that road diesel does.
 
Tractors, trucks and other vehicles used by the farmers working their fields must, like all vehicles traveling on public roads, be registered and have some form of identification. For certain farm vehicles that means, in addition to a license plate, the company name and United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) number must be displayed on the power unit of the truck.

https://www.fosterswift.com/communications-Rules-of-the-Road-Farm-Vehicles.html
 
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