Oregon Starts Agenda 21’s GPS Vehicle Tracking System
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
TheNewAmerican.com
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
A new Oregon law allows the government to track drivers’ every move, and the United Nations and the federal government think that’s a great idea — for all of us.
So as to punish electric car drivers for not paying their fair share of transportation taxes associated with gas-powered vehicles, the state of Oregon is installing in every electric car a GPS device that will measure the number of miles traveled.
For now, however, the program is voluntary, but such invasions of privacy and surveillance schemes rarely stay that way.
Constitutionalists and those concerned with protecting individual liberty will recognize this “pilot program” for what it is: another chain binding Americans and expanding the range of vision of the all-seeing eye of government.
Not everybody sees it that way, however. In fact, some people are pleased to have the government in the car with them. As reported by American Spectator: “I’ve been free-loading on the highways for 20 years driving electric cars. So I haven’t been paying my fair share,” said Oregon resident David Hastings, in an interview with network television.
With so many of us thinking like Hastings, is it any wonder that we live in the most sophisticated and intrusive surveillance state in the history of the world?
Stop and think about the scope of this scheme.
Not only will the GPS device installed as part of the “vehicle miles traveled (VMT)” tax measure distance, but as is the nature of the technology, the driver’s location will be tracked as well.
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