Saturday, May 8, 2010

"Handsome" Henry Waxman Wants Tracking Devices on All Cars





"Oh, Henry...track me, track me"


Democratic Representative Henry Waxman (CA), also known as "Handsome Henry", has come up with yet another bonehead idea. This time, he wants to require that every car in the land be equipped with a "black box" recorder that would track our whereabouts as we are driving (to those tea parties, I suppose).



Believe it or not, Comrade Waxman is reportedly working on legislation that would produce a system like On-Star to be placed on all cars. That way, Handsome Henry will know where every car in the land is at any given moment.

Naturally, this would produce countless new government jobs. Green jobs no less! Think how many bureaucrats it would take to monitor all the cars in America.

Keep in mind, this is the same aparatchnik who has been pushing that "Fairness Doctrine" that would basically destroy talk radio by smothering radio stations with regulations and lawsuits.

How's that "Hope and Change" working for you, folks?
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6 comments:

  1. Lance Christian JohnsonMay 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM

    Are you guys still grousing about this "fairness doctrine?" This thing that's never even going to happen?

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  2. Siarlys JenkinsMay 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM

    No tracking devices. A basic libertarian issue we can all agree on. Law enforcement should obtain a warrant before attaching a tracking device to any citizen's private vehicle. Probably cause and all that.

    However, I'm not opposed to the device (already present in many cars) which after an accident can show that, e.g., the driver ran a stop sign at 60 mph in a 30 mph zone. Its impossible for patrol officers to witness such things, and drivers who do that need to be taken out of circulation as a menace to society.

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  3. Gary FouseMay 9, 2010 at 8:37 AM

    Siarlys,

    I doubt Handsome Henry gives a hoot about accident investigation techniques.

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  4. Siarlys JenkinsMay 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM

    So why should I let him determine the scope of my political advocacy? I'm a citizen of this sovereignty. I wouldn't mind seeing him out of office either. I'd like to see about equal numbers of aging Republicans and Democrats dumped this fall. I want a changed congress, on both sides of the aisle, one I can believe in.

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  5. Gary FouseMay 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM

    Throw all the bums out. Bring in the new bums.

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  6. Siarlys JenkinsMay 14, 2010 at 9:42 AM

    But leave my senator and my congress rep alone. They're both good. We need clones of them occupying the other seats.

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