Guilty of speeding until proven innocent
We now have traffic cameras on Frankford Avenue/Route 13. I was surprised to learn not just one, but six cameras (four on Frankford, one on Levick Street, one on Robbins Avenue) have been installed. That seems to make them more “spy” than traffic cameras.
This is part of a trend to have camera eyes everywhere. New tech allows for cameras to read any license plate into a database where AI can pull up every place a car has been.
We are now in Orwell’s 1984 and Big Brother is everywhere.
The courts have told us there is no expectation of privacy in public places, but I would ask – is this not search without probable cause?
In addition, if you are sent a ticket, you are guilty until proven innocent. That seems to defy due process rights.
It doesn’t matter. There’s money in it. (Maybe that’s why the speed limit was dropped from 30 mph to 25. To catch more people). This is also an irresistible tool for urban government to exert more control. How liberal Democrats love “control.”
Abuse? Five Albany, Georgia officers were recently fired for using cameras to track spouses and ex-mates. Do you think this voyeurism is not going on everywhere?
These cameras are not going away. They do seem to reduce accidents. (Little else does – drivers today are incredibly irresponsible). Cameras also help understaffed police track criminals with much success.
Yet we better insist on strict court supervision for any information gained by the state. No more being adjudicated guilty “by camera” unless you prove your innocence.
Wouldn’t it have been much better to teach good citizenship throughout our public-school years, and produce adults who behave responsibly? I may be old, but I remember when the schools did just that.
Richard Iaconelli
Rhawnhurst
A challenge for national elected leaders and the news media
We often hear in the news media that the American people are deeply divided. Our supporters feel this is an appropriate time for the news media and America’s national elected leaders to join together to let us know how the American people can be more united.
Are we divided because of the ongoing effects of inflation, the need for more jobs and job skills for America’s working-age and able-bodied people, the need for more trade programs in America’s schools, in need of a more realistic cost of living, a reduction of poverty in America or the many other difficulties experienced by the American people?
It would be good if the news media helped us answer the questions that need to be answered for the well-being of all Americans, “Why are the American people divided?”
This is also an excellent opportunity for America’s 535 national elected leaders in Washington, D.C., who are elected and paid to serve the needs and concerns of the American people in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, to offer their thoughts on what will help unite the American people. The American people feel it’s time to address inflation, create more jobs and job skills for our fellow Americans, more trade programs in America’s schools and focus on reducing poverty in the United States.
The goal of creating more jobs in America will certainly help unite the American people, America’s businesses, American workers and benefit American families.
The upcoming congressional and senatorial campaigns allow national candidates of both parties to document how they will unite us for the benefit of the American people and help promote American businesses, large and small. Employing American workers adds to a more vibrant economy in the United States of America, which will benefit all Americans.
Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Email them to Michael@AmericanWorkersRadio.com.
Michael Blichasz
Torresdale
School district ripping off taxpayers
The school district has lived off the illusion that its students are doing well. It has inflated grades and its graduation rates for years. Back in the early ‘70s the system lived off the concept if students got a D in the 3rd quarter they couldn’t fail for the year and the students knew the system well. So if the student failed in the first two and last quarter but got a D for the third they passed for the year. It also used the social promotion game to keep you in the same age group. So who knows what program the school district is using to keep up the statistical illusion. Part of the illusion is stated as 25% math and 33% reading comprehension when it should really be 75% math and 67% reading ineptitude. How can you have any confidence in an increase of the graduation rate to 85% from 68% in 2018 when COVID basically threw the statistics out the window. Also these statistics are probably 3rd to 8th grades. It would be interesting to project them to senior year to see what the math and reading levels would be. Shame on the school district for letting the students down and ripping off the taxpayers for billions of dollars.
Richard Donofry
East Torresdale
