The Aussies Are Coming To Get Us!
Remember when they first introduced red light cameras? Sure, most people bought the line that they were just to protect us from those nasty red-light-running bastards; but there were others like me who had some concerns about the spectre of robo-cops recording video footage willy-nilly. It seemed to me that it would be a clever way to set up a network of state-owned spycams to track the once free people of the Republic.
It appears that my fears have been realized. Redflex, the Australian company that owns and operates many cameras, including those in Arizona, has said the following:
“We are moving into areas such as homeland security on a national level and on a local level,” Redflex regional director Cherif Elsadek said. “Optical character recognition is our next roll out which will be coming out in a few months — probably about five months or so.”
Camera Fraud has a great article about the local implementation of the “aussiecams” as I like to call them. Here in AZ, they have even changed the style of our license plates to make us easier to track using the cameras:
Traffic cameras, which were initially built and maintained for speed enforcement, can easily be upgraded to monitor red-light violations, tire tread depth, right-turn violations, and just about any application you can think of.
With the open admission from Redflex regarding optical character recognition upgrades, it has become blatently obvious that the foreign-owned company will stop at nothing short of becoming a full-fledged quasi-police/government agency, right in the footsteps of Blackwater.
I don’t want the state’s computers tracking me around the freeways of what used to be the free State of Arizona. Will the aussiecams be coming to your state?
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