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Title: Cops Hate Waze (That’s a reason to love it)
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Eric Peters Autos
URL Source: http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/02/03/waze/
Published: Feb 3, 2015
Author: Eric
Post Date: 2015-02-04 05:45:35 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 9598
Comments: 22
One of the clearest indications you live in a police state – or one well on its way to becoming one – is “rules for us” (you and me) and “rules for them” (government officials and enforcers). This manifests in numerous ugly ways, the latest being the controversy over an app called Waze. Among other useful functions such as alerting drivers to traffic jams down the road, it alerts drivers to cops down the road. Cops, of course, do not like this at all. It is bad for business. And that is exactly the right word. We’re told that radar traps and so on exist not to extract dollars from our wallets but for “safety.” If so, why do the cops squeal so loudly about Waze? After all, people slow down for the trap up ahead. Isn’t that the desired object? Obviously, not. The squealing erupts not because people are slowing down but because they slow down in time to avoid being hit with a fine for not slowing down. As they used to teach in journalism school: Follow the money. It is always about the money. Power, though, is another big inducement. Waze undermines the power wielded by the state’s Praetorians. It somewhat levels the playing field. It helps ordinary citizens avoid interactions with the costumed and badged power-trippers running amok these days. “The law” is of no real use because it works for them – not for us. If you doubt this, try asserting your Fourth or Fifth or even First Amendments in court… or for that matter, on the street. The rights of the Praetorians, meanwhile, are effectively without limit. Which is why Waze and other organic countermeasures have been sprouting up. Like the underground press behind the old Iron Curtain, such means are the only means available when the entire system is geared to crush the ordinary person under its bloated and indifferent weight. One of the most delightful features of Waze is that – using real time updates collated via social media such as Twitter – it can hip you to a “safety” or “drunk driving” checkpoint up ahead in ample time to avoid it. Previously, one had no real choice but to submit to the rights-rape of a random/probable cause-free police investigation (interrogation and search). Roll up on one of these rights-rape zones and you had to go through it. Because making a U turn would result in even worse. You’ve just given the rights-rapers their “probable cause” to come screeching after you. Your disinclination to have your rights raped becoming the pretext for having your rights raped. Waze can alert you to the rights-rape zone miles before you actually reach it – such that a casual turn-off cannot be construed (yet) as evidence of “something to hide.” This, of course, drives the rights-rapers to carpet-chewing fury. For example, Bedford County, Va. Sheriff Mike Brown: “The police community (what is it with this community stuff?) needs to coordinate a effort to have the owner (Google) act like the responsible corporate citizen they have always been (ha!) and remove this feature from the application before (here the lips curl back and the boar reveals his tusks) any litigation or statutory action.” Brown is Chairman of the National Sheriff’s Association – the rights-rape official analog of the Gambino Family in New York. What are we constantly told by the rights-rapers? If we don’t have anything to hide, what are we afraid of? Well, just so. What are they afraid of? Among other things, they are afraid of a level playing field. Or even one that’s slightly less than 100 percent tilted in their favor. Is it not bad enough that “the law” offers us effectively no legal protection against their outrages? Indeed, that the law countenances such outrages? Do you know that you are legally subject to being strip searched if arrested? And that you are subject to arrest at almost any time – because “the law” has given rights-rapers virtual carte blanche to conjure charges on the spot? “Disorderly conduct” fits almost any situation. Or, “interfering with a police investigation.” Any time you’re within snout-reach of a cop, you are vulnerable. Which is why apps like Waze are so valuable. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu counsels avoiding confrontation with a superior opponent. Dodge him, wear him out. Let him exhaust his resources so that he becomes weak – or at least weakened. Such that the fight – if it comes – is on more equal terms. Again, that is what the rights-rapers cannot abide. It is why they have sought (and sometimes succeeded) in making it illegal (or very difficult) for anyone except them to carry “high powered” weapons (and body armor). And it is why they are furious about us video recording them. Now comes Waze – and the rights-rapers really have their panties in a bunch. Not because of the threat this app poses to their “safety” – but because it undermines their power over us. If there’s anything good about the age in which we live, it is that this technology – which they hoped could be deployed unilaterally (against us) works the other way, too. And Pandora cannot be stuffed back in the box. Too late, boys. It’s about damned time…
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#1. To: hondo68, Stoner, A K A Stone, CZ82, tpaine, sneakypete, TooConservative, TEA Party Reveler, Dead Culture Watch, Pridie.Nones, Excalibur, Operation 40 (#0)
We’re told that radar traps and so on exist not to extract dollars from our wallets but for “safety.” If so, why do the cops squeal so loudly about Waze? After all, people slow down for the trap up ahead. Isn’t that the desired object? Obviously, not. The squealing erupts not because people are slowing down but because they slow down in time to avoid being hit with a fine for not slowing down. As they used to teach in journalism school: Follow the money. It is always about the money. Badged Praetorians don't like it much when the serfs have technology that renders the revenue collectors ineffective. 90% of traffic laws are NOT about safety - they're about scamming motorists out of their hard earned cash.
Interesting. Never heard of it before.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Which means the cops can also use it to flood the app with fake checkpoints and deny the existence of the real ones. Now that's a level playing field.
"The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
Hey! That's not faaaaair!
"The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
Why not? They lie about everything else.
So do drivers at DUI checkpoints claiming they only had one beer. So if the cops lie, now we have a level playing field. Like it?
Kansas Supreme Court Limits Use Of Portable DUI Tester
Nice pic of you and your wife, Officer Inflatable.
Is Palmie trying to debate by using cartoons again? Funny how the canary clan gets their knickers in a wad whenever citizens use technology to increase freedom.
So if the cops lie, now we have a level playing field. Like it? So,you are now admitting that cops have the same moral code and obligations as drunks,druggies,and criminals,and even have a "So what?" attitude about it?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Two ways to achieve a level playing field -- lift one end or lower the other. Trouble is, I don't see the drunks, druggies and criminals raising their standards. So it's fine with me if the cops lower theirs. IF you insist on a level playing field. Do you?
"How do your chains feel? Are you weighted down in agony, endlessly trundling the short foul length of your dark dungeon, cursing the statist thugs who will not let you see the sun? O woe. O woe. O woe. *Sigh* *Sigh* and *Sigh* again." (Tip o'the hat to Kevin Curry)
"The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
Thank you for finally admitting it. IF you insist on a level playing field. Do you? Of course not. I have higher standards than you. I expect the cops to obey the law. Just call me old-fashioned.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Mr. Pete - Laws are written for wee wittle folks like some of us; laws are not written for those that create laws or the enforcers of law; these authorities command respect.
Some vid of Waze. It is an interesting app, used alone or with radar detectors for the more hardcore types.
Had I realized who I was posting to, I wouldn't have. Your idiotic, taken-out- of-context response demonstrates why. I said IF you truly wanted a level playing field, then both sides play by the exact same rules.
What kind of fool would you have to be to want a level playing field between cops and criminals?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Sneaky, allow me to introduce you to misterwhite. Misterwhite, meet sneaky..... 8-)
I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I must like banging my head against the wall.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Our resident, ignorant troll refuses to read the article before butting in on an argument. Who wants a level playing field? THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE, idiot. TWICE! Read it. "Waze ... somewhat levels the playing field." "Among other things, they are afraid of a level playing field." More important, I guess, to search for a misterwhite post and try to score some "gotcha" points. No different than tpaine, which is why he now joins him on my very short list of posters to ignore.
Among other useful functions such as alerting drivers to traffic jams down the road, it alerts drivers to cops down the road. Cops, of course, do not like this at all. It is bad for business. And that is exactly the right word.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
" Waze "
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
"It somewhat levels the playing field."
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
#5. To: Palmdale (#4)
#6. To: misterwhite (#5)
Hey! That's not faaaaair!
#7. To: misterwhite (#3)
Which means the cops can also use it to flood the app with fake checkpoints
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#8. To: Deckard (#7)
"Why not? They lie about everything else."
#9. To: misterwhite (#8)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#10. To: Palmdale (#4)
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#11. To: hondo68 (#10)
Nice pic of you and your wife, Officer Inflatable.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: misterwhite (#8)
So do drivers at DUI checkpoints claiming they only had one beer.
#13. To: sneakypete (#12)
"So,you are now admitting that cops have the same moral code and obligations as drunks,druggies,and criminals,and even have a "So what?" attitude about it?"
#14. To: Deckard (#11)
#15. To: misterwhite (#13)
Trouble is, I don't see the drunks, druggies and criminals raising their standards. So it's fine with me if the cops lower theirs.
#16. To: sneakypete (#15)
I expect the cops to obey the law.
#17. To: Deckard (#0)
#18. To: sneakypete (#12)
#19. To: misterwhite (#18)
I said IF you truly wanted a level playing field, then both sides play by the exact same rules.
#20. To: sneakypete misterwhite (#19)
#21. To: Dead Culture Watch (#20)
Misterwhite, meet sneaky.....
#22. To: Dead Culture Watch (#20)
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