STOP Congress From Initiating Federal Auto Black Box Mandate
Mandate will allow Government to Track, Tax and "Remotely Control Vehicles" (Micheal Hastings)
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(NaturalNews) The federal government is working on a plan that would mandate black box tracking devices be installed in every vehicle, with real-time uploading of vehicle location, speed and mileage to government authorities. This Orwellian technology is already technically feasible and will be promoted as a way to increase "highway safety" while boosting government revenues from mileage taxation.
"The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America's major roads," reports the LA Times.
"[Congress is] exploring how, over the next decade, they can move to a system in which drivers pay per mile of road they roll over. Thousands of motorists have already taken the black boxes, some of which have GPS monitoring, for a test drive."
There are three hugely important realizations to glean from all this:
Realization #1) The government wants to track your every move
The USA is already an admitted surveillance state. As leaked documents from Edward Snowden have revealed, the NSA openly spies on all your phone calls, text chats, web surfing behavior, bank account activity and more.
Now, the government wants to add real-time tracking of your vehicle location to that long list of surveillance targets. This would of course allow the government to:
? Track and map all your driving trips.
? Know when you are home or away from home.
? Know where you work.
? Establish patterns of your activity such as when you pick up kids from school or go grocery shopping.
? Know if you attend political rallies, activist meetings, gun ranges or other destinations the government characterizes as being linked to "domestic terrorism."
The government could then use this information to target you for punitive tax audits, surprise armed raids, government shakedowns or other nefarious schemes that are have now been revealed as routine extortion activities carried out by a criminal government. (See video, below.)
Realization #2) Government can turn EVERY road into a toll road
Both state and federal governments absolutely love the idea of taxing you for every mile you drive. This fits into the "government utopia" of taxing you for breathing (carbon dioxide taxes), taxing you for working (payroll taxes) and even taxing you for dying (estate taxes).
Of course, governments already indirectly tax driving by taxing fuel. If you wanted to tax driving, taxing fuel is actually a very efficient way to do it. But the rise of electric vehicles is starting to freak out governments because they don't have a way to tax the actual road mileage of vehicles that don't burn gasoline or diesel.
Because governments inherently believe that all your money already belongs to them, they perceive
(NaturalNews) The federal government is working on a plan that would mandate black box tracking devices be installed in every vehicle, with real-time uploading of vehicle location, speed and mileage to government authorities. This Orwellian technology is already technically feasible and will be promoted as a way to increase "highway safety" while boosting government revenues from mileage taxation.
"The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America's major roads," reports the LA Times.
"[Congress is] exploring how, over the next decade, they can move to a system in which drivers pay per mile of road they roll over. Thousands of motorists have already taken the black boxes, some of which have GPS monitoring, for a test drive."
There are three hugely important realizations to glean from all this:
Realization #1) The government wants to track your every move
The USA is already an admitted surveillance state. As leaked documents from Edward Snowden have revealed, the NSA openly spies on all your phone calls, text chats, web surfing behavior, bank account activity and more.
Now, the government wants to add real-time tracking of your vehicle location to that long list of surveillance targets. This would of course allow the government to:
? Track and map all your driving trips.
? Know when you are home or away from home.
? Know where you work.
? Establish patterns of your activity such as when you pick up kids from school or go grocery shopping.
? Know if you attend political rallies, activist meetings, gun ranges or other destinations the government characterizes as being linked to "domestic terrorism."
The government could then use this information to target you for punitive tax audits, surprise armed raids, government shakedowns or other nefarious schemes that are have now been revealed as routine extortion activities carried out by a criminal government. (See video, below.)
Realization #2) Government can turn EVERY road into a toll road
Both state and federal governments absolutely love the idea of taxing you for every mile you drive. This fits into the "government utopia" of taxing you for breathing (carbon dioxide taxes), taxing you for working (payroll taxes) and even taxing you for dying (estate taxes).
Of course, governments already indirectly tax driving by taxing fuel. If you wanted to tax driving, taxing fuel is actually a very efficient way to do it. But the rise of electric vehicles is starting to freak out governments because they don't have a way to tax the actual road mileage of vehicles that don't burn gasoline or diesel.
Because governments inherently believe that all your money already belongs to them, they perceive
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