INVASION (poem) by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com on AuthorsDen

Reviewed on April 12, 2012

LA gave up on Red Light Cameras when they figured out the courts refused to enforce them and people quit paying the fines. Not to mention they were losing their ass to the vendors who got a huge cut of the revenue. Patrick

Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on March 20, 2012

Quite the rant, Tom. I recently got a ticket in the mail for going through a red light (caught by a camera). It was a dark night with freezing rain and when I applied the brakes as the light turned amber, my small SUV slid slowly into the intersection. The camera clocked my speed at 35 kilometers per hour (15 kilometers below the speed limit). The road was very icy so I was driving slowly deliberatly. I have challenged the ticket and I am supposed to get a court date at some point in time. What a waste of time! I am not one that goes through red lights. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on March 17, 2012

Quite a rant! You forgot to mention eyes in the sky… Little helicopters in your backyard.

Red lights serve a useful purpose. Red light runners are very common here in this city and cause terrible crashes often resulting in the death of innocent people with a green light. They voted down red light cameras here in Houston and I fear, that, I will be hit one day, either from the rear as I slow a for yellow light stop, or worse, T-boned by some idiot thinking that he is able to violate the laws of physics with his quick car and disregard for safety.

Similar idiots in fast cars race on the freeway and count on traffic to avoid getting caught. And then there are those who feel that a multimillion dollar freeway wall in beautifully cast concrete should be littered with their gang signs and other graffiti.

In England, they put cameras in bad areas in several towns with a bad reputation for criminal activity. Remarkably, the crime disappeared overnight.

Ron

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron

Reviewed on March 15, 2012

Geez, Tom....you're not upset much, are you??? Cheer up, mate, I have a friend in merrie olde England who reminds me that surveillance cameras are EVERYWHERE in that happy land. The time of Big Brother is soon coming upon us!!!!

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Richard King

Reviewed on March 15, 2012

What!!!! You been sleeping under a rock??? Ever heard of the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? Well, that was last century, we're now in the TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION and have been since the last half of the last century. It's only going to get worse. BEND OVER!!!

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on March 15, 2012

"You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.” The Promo from the television series – Person of Interest.

Big Brother is Definitely Watching – Cameras are everywhere today - Street Corners, Back Alleys, Rooftops, Loading Docks, Gas Stations, ATMs, Traffic Lights, Tollbooths, etc., etc., etc. Be Very Careful Out There.

And man, are you ever lucky – only 40 Bucks for a traffic cam violation? They are at least $100 around these parts, and my spouse has amassed quite a few of them.

On the bright side, the loading dock surveillance camera at a nearby factory recorded our latest canine rescue, Hank,
desperately dumpster diving late at night, searching for scraps of food. We were called in because he was first spotted on camera, and Hank has now been saved from a life of neglect and starvation.

Reviewed by John Coppolella

Reviewed on March 14, 2012

Bravo. All that to pay chicken feed to the public works slaves who maintain it all for them. I was in court to dispute a traffic ticket case, but not before another man went to court to fight for his constitutional right to a fair trial. His case was called first. He came well prepared and showed the judge a detailed color coded 3-D drawing of the intersection and accident presented on an easel, proving it was not his fault. A crowd of police officers (who also got paid out the same pot of money they helped to generate, as the judge did in the case), including the officer involved in the man's case, all were standing on the side of the court room and laughed when the judge dismissed the man's evidence by saying, "I don't care what you have to say, I've known these officers for 20 years, and if they say you did it, you did it. Case closed!" That said I quietly paid my ticket and went home, driving the speed limit wearing my safety belt visibly attached.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

Reviewed on March 14, 2012

Don't know what you'd do in a non democratic country where ranting like this would get u arrested and jailed for life in a gulag (sp?)...you would have been gone long ago...but can't say that I disagree...e