[s-cars] EDRs watching, and more OT talk

[brian hoeft]

alright well then call me a dark minded paranoia-ac

this is just one of the many ways our freedoms are being strangled out of
us.  dont get me wrong, i love my country here in the USofA, but too many
politicians are in bed with money makers that have more at stake with their
shareholders than their own consciences.

personally i will send both an email and paper letter to be a voice against
these plans.

and have done so for another,, with no disrespect to the issue of this
email, i believe codex to be a much more frightening quest of the people in
power that either dont realize the error of their ways (nearly impossible)
,simply dont care or possibly care enough to indirectly harm the fellow
citizens theyve taken oaths to defend.

if anyone out there cares about thier health, i would be happy to forward
information should it be requested.  but be warned its NOT nice, and its
going to be implemented worldwide unless there are diligent voices of
opposition.  im speaking of codex alimentarius and the FAO, WHO (not to
mention major pharmaceutical corporations) are pushing for it.  Ignorance is
very dangerous because the consequences can cost you your life.  If we don't
get Codex changed, in 2009 there is a very real possibility that you could
be arrested for eating organic foods or selling healthy foods, or for taking
helpful doses of vitamins and supplements.

not paranoid. informed. //brian






On 8/25/06, Jerry Scott <jerryscott at wispertel.net> wrote:
>
> Here's a memo from our local car club here in Denver. that may be of
> interest to the list.
>
> Jerry Scott
>
> Big Brother will be watching you for sure by 2008 -- the year a proposed
> requirement that Event Data Recorders (EDRs) become mandatory standard
> equipment in all new cars and trucks will become law unless public
> outrage puts the kibosh on it somehow.
> >
> >  EDRs are "black boxes" -- just like airplanes have. They can record a
> wide variety of things -- including how fast you drive and whether you
> "buckle-up for safety." The National Highway Traffic Safety
> Administration (NHTSA) wants EDRs to be installed in every new vehicle
> beginning with model year 2008 -- on the theory that the information
> will help crash investigators more accurately determine the hows and
> whys of accidents.
> >
> >  But EDRs could -- and likely will be -- used for other purposes as
> well.
> >
> >  Tied into GPS navigation computers, EDRs could give interested parties
> -- your local cash-hungry sheriff, for example -- the ability to take
> automated ticketing to the next level. Since the data recorders can
> continuously monitor most of the operating parameters of a vehicle as it
> travels -- and the GPS unit can precisely locate the vehicle in "real
> time," wherever it happens to be at any given moment -- any and all
> incidents of "speeding" could be immediately detected and a piece of
> paying paper issued to the offender faster than he could tap the brake.
> That's even if he knew he was in the crosshairs, which of course he
> wouldn't. Probably they'll just erect an electronic debiting system of
> some sort that ties directly into your checking account -- since the
> paperwork could not keep up with the massive uptick in fines that would
> be generated.
> >
> >  What Do You Think?
> >  If you think this is just a dark-minded paranoiac vision, think again.
> Rental car companies have already deployed a very similar system of
> onboard electronic monitoring to identify customers who dare to drive
> faster than the posted limit -- and automatically tap them with a
> "surcharge" for their scofflaw ways. While this inventive form of
> "revenue enhancement" was challenged and subsequently batted down by the
> courts, the technology continues to be honed -- and quietly put into
> service.
> >
> >  Already, 15-20 percent of all the cars and trucks in service have
> EDRs; most of these are General Motors vehicles. GM has been installing
> "black boxes" in its new cars and trucks since about 1996 as part of the
> Supplemental Restraint (air bag) system. Within a few years, as many as
> 90 percent of all new motor vehicles will be equipped with EDRs,
> according to government estimates -- whether the requirement NHTSA is
> pushing actually becomes law or not.
> >
> >  The automakers are just as eager to keep tabs on us as the government
> -- in part to keep the shyster lawyers who have been so successfully
> digging into their deep pockets at bay. EDRs would provide irrefutable
> evidence of high-speed driving, for example -- or make it impossible for
> a person injured in a crash to deny he wasn't wearing a seat belt.
> >
> >  Insurance companies will launch "safety" campaigns urging that "we use
> available technology" to identify "unsafe" drivers -- and who will be
> able to argue against that? Everyone knows that speeding is against the
> law -- and if you aren't breaking the law, what have you got to worry
> about?
> >
> >  It's all for our own good.
> >
> >  But if you get edgy thinking about the government -- and our friends
> in corporate America -- being able to monitor where we go and how we go
> whenever they feel like checking in on us, take the time to write a
> "Thanks, but no thanks" letter to NHTSA at http://dms.dot.gov/
> >
> >
>
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