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Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket (www.gadgetreview.com)
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A woman drives with both hands on the wheel. Her phone sits face-down on her lap. No officer pulls her over. No lights flash. Weeks later, a $1,251 ticket arrives in the mail. The evidence: a single frame from a Camera surveillance app. The charge: phone use while driving.

Automated camera companies market their devices as automated license plate readers — tools for catching stolen cars, flagging warrants, and aiding serious investigations.

Sold as a Crime Tool. Used as a Fine Machine.

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[-] jdr@lemmy.ml -3 points 4 hours ago

Funny, isn't liberty an inalienable right granted by The Creator?

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Ben Franklin was an atheist

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Are you sure? He definitely said and wrote things to the contrary, including the Declaration of Independence.

I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.

I have no dog in this race, being neither American nor religious, but it seems like an important historical detail.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 minutes ago

I think we can agree he was a critic of organized religion, and that it's pretty enlightened to not have the state impose religion on anyone.

That said I still think he (at least for a large chunk of his life) believed in the existence of a god, the god of Abraham/Christianity in particular.

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