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shane77m
09-09-2013, 02:07 PM
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/patriotism-vandalism-freedom-fighters-spraypaint-speeding-cameras/#.Ui4pgLEo69I



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Like the patriotic Bostonians who threw tea into the harbor, American citizens are once again tweaking the nose of big government, this time in Maryland. A Wicomico County patriot painted “1776″ over a speeding camera, blocking the view of the cameras that catch drivers committing the victimless crime of speeding past an inanimate object.

The Blaze reports:


According to WBOC-TV, speed cameras in Wicomico County raked in $40,000 for the police department last year, funding computers, a K-9 unit and uniforms.

This isn’t the only location in Maryland where speed cameras have come under attack. In Tacoma Park, a camera that issued more than 1,000 tickets in less than three months was spray painted black last month, WJLA-TV reported.

“We hate them! And this camera taking a hundred dollars here and a hundred dollars there. Money coming out and not coming in! We are gonna feel it — everybody feels it!” David McKenzie of Hyattsville told the news station.


Despite costing taxpayers millions every year in productive capital, more and more counties across the country are installing the unconstitutional cameras to bilk taxpayers. A Florida judge last year found red-light cameras unconstitutional and a movement has sprung up across the nation to fight the Orwellian encroachment on due process and the sixth amendment.

Brian4Liberty
09-09-2013, 02:29 PM
Hmmm. "Protest vandalism"?

VIDEODROME
09-09-2013, 02:36 PM
I would have sprayed 1984


Anyway... I think this comes short from sending a message. It might be tempting to mount an obvious camera aimed at the Police Precinct instead. Probably some kind of remote webcam.

cajuncocoa
09-09-2013, 02:45 PM
Both.

BuddyRey
09-09-2013, 02:53 PM
It's not vandalism if you paid for the property in question. Since, as the progressives love to say, "we are the government", I guess that means those are "our cameras", donchaknow?

fr33
09-09-2013, 02:53 PM
Poking Big Brother in the eye (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?404829-Guerrilla-surveillance-camera-destruction-hits-the-U-S-Salon-com)

mad cow
09-09-2013, 03:12 PM
Both.

Ditto.

Occam's Banana
09-09-2013, 09:44 PM
Both.

Exactly. They are not mutually exclusive.

An iffier question is whether it counts as civil disobedience ...

Icymudpuppy
09-09-2013, 10:01 PM
Vandalism requires a victim. Please point out to me who is being victimized. The government cannot be a victim, as the government is not a private entity.

phill4paul
09-09-2013, 10:10 PM
It's not vandalism if you paid for the property in question. Since, as the progressives love to say, "we are the government", I guess that means those are "our cameras", donchaknow?

Vandalism requires a victim. Please point out to me who is being victimized. The government cannot be a victim, as the government is not a private entity.

Not much more to comment.

Christian Liberty
09-09-2013, 10:14 PM
For it to be vandalism would imply that government is actually a legitimate property owner. I don't see how it could be. I see nothing wrong with this.

aGameOfThrones
09-09-2013, 10:49 PM
With a little practice it could be Art.

JK/SEA
09-09-2013, 10:53 PM
http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/patriotism-vandalism-freedom-fighters-spraypaint-speeding-cameras/#.Ui4pgLEo69I

put it up for a vote.

i say nay.

shane77m
09-10-2013, 06:25 AM
put it up for a vote.

i say nay.

I say nay as well.