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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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[–] -4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ben Franklin was an atheist

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    I assume they were thinking of Jefferson, but he would have been more of an agnostic (maybe). He just thought the virgin birth was bullshit, Jesus was some guy, and the point was to believe in caring for others basically. Apparently he just took all the miracles out and said, people should treat people better.

    Which honestly sounds like a much less toxic version of beliefs. (But I'm sure that's been white washed or rose tinted or what not over the years)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month 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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