Guest Post by Eric Peters
There’s not much left for the Woke to target, but “speeders” will do. There is a lack of equity on the road, you see. Some drivers going faster than others.
And “getting away with it.”
Mayor Pete Buttigieg – now a federal “secretary,” the innocuous-sounding term given to people who function as national-level dictators within the area of their fief – wants to make sure they don’t by making sure they pay for it. All of them. All of the time. Or as close to that as possible. He wants to do that by erecting a national grid of automated speed enforcement cameras that would “self-enforce” speed limits and thus achieve the equity of velocity he seeks.
No one should be able to get from A to B faster than anyone else. That’s racist, probably. Everything is racist to the Woke. It serves as th excuse for what they don’t like – and the means for shutting up those the Woke don’t like.
Hey, what about those black numbers on a white background . . . ?
Of course, it’s mainly another money grab – as is almost always the case when it comes to everything the government does. If there isn’t any money it, there’s little appeal to it. At the end of the day, the government wants to get paid. And so do the remora-like entities that depend on government for much of their business. This includes the insurance business, which has made a lot of money off of “speeders.” Any system that makes it feasible to catch more “speeders” means more money for them, too.
But there’s more to this than just money.
If Mayor-now-Secretary Pete succeeds in establishing velocity equity he will have succeeded in greatly furthering what those who are aware of Mayor-Sectretary Pete’s long-term plan has always been. Which is to make transportation, itself, more “equitable” – by making it the same for everyone.
You cannot “speed” when you ride the government’s bus.
Or, for that matter, get going at your own speed. You go when – and where – government planers like Mayor-Secretary Pete decide. If you go back and read his public utterances on the subject you will find out for yourself.
Of course, he does not out it exactly that way.
Here is how he does put it:
“Our goal is zero deaths, a country where one day nobody has to say goodbye to a loved one because of a traffic crash.” And how would this “zero deaths” objective be achieved? By eliminating anything that might cause a crash. Not just “speeding” but also driving, since the act entails at least the possibility of crashing (and dying) irrespective of speed.
A parked car hits no one.
To make sure more cars are parked, Mayor-Secretary Pete wants fewer roads. The Department of Transportation will provide “guidance” – that word keeps cropping up – toward that end. States, cities and counties will be encouraged to “. . . embrace safer road design such as dedicated bike and bus lanes . . .” so as to ” . . . make them safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.”
Ideally, to make them nonexistent – for privately owned cars.
“We cannot tolerate the continuing crisis of roadway deaths in America,” Pete says. Italics added. Who is “we,” chief? And where is this “crisis” of which you speak?
Most of is “tolerated” it quite well, thank you very much – because it’s not a “crisis” except insofar as it provides another shrill – and purposely exaggerated – talking point for hysterics who prey on the fears of idiots. Do people occasionally die in car crashes? Of course. They also occasionally die from any of an almost limitless possible life-enders, such as falling down the stairs or having an unexpected heart attack.
Speaking of which.
About 659,000 people die of heart disease in the United States each year. How many people die in motor vehicle crashes annually? About 38,000. Several of them in self-driving Teslas, by the way.
Mayor-Sectretary Pete has an interesting way of gauging “crisis.”
In fact, it’s an opportunity. Consider the way the bulk of the country’s population was cowed into giving up their freedom to move over the “threat” they were told had manifested in the form a a virus that didn’t kill 99.8 something of the not-elderly/not-already very sick population. Cars kill a fraction of that fraction and almost all of that is not the result of “speeding” but rather of not paying attention.
Driver inattentiveness and its amigo-along-for-the-ride, driver incompetence, are the chief problems, if the problem you’re trying to reduce is avoidable traffic accidents and fatalities. But Mayor-Secretary Pete has something more comprehensive in mind – and velocity equity will help him achieve it by making it not worth it for people to bother with owning a car they’re constantly punished for driving if they drive it any way that people such as Mayor-Secretary Pete frown upon.
Assuming there are even roads left to drive them on.
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Of all the epic beta male faggots in the Drooling Houseplant Regime,
This salami hider is the most incompetent.
Mayor Buttipirate
CA,
while I gave ya a thumbs up, most incompetent has a long list of strong challengers for the title. Hmmmm, Ms Harris for one.
He’s some piece of crap though.
The only thing saving “Heels Up” from the gold medal of epic beta male faggotry incompetence is that
it might actually be a woman. Unlike “The 4 star admiral”
Cheers.
Actually, May-yer Butt-I-peg(?) is after your crap.
Literally.
The crap that’s still up yer butt…
An unsettlingly shuddering chill may run up your spine at the thought of such deviancy, but that’s still better than being a victim of this Rump Ranger…
Why did the 2 faggots miss their flight?……………………………….
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They were still at home packing each others shit.
“Our goal is zeros, lots of zeros, after some other numbers and a dollar sign”
-Buttplug
Buttigigger is bloodline, therefore an actor foisted on humanity to be a living joke, a farce ,a tragic idiot. Aside from kings, queens and presidents, he is bloodline to the most famous actors in Hollywood. In other words, TPTB is messin’ wit your head again. Just consider him really bad entertainment.
They have camera’s in them and are used to track vehicle data everywhere you go.
Put a little dirt on your plates and wear a Nixon mask.
They can’t prosecute if they can’t locate or positively ID the driver.
You can’t write the vehicle a ticket for speeding only the operator.
Sorry, but they do it in lots of states. The owner of the vehicle pays the toll when his car is used on the tollway and speeding/red light tickets are issued to the vehicle owner, as well. It is up to you to prove you were not the driver.
I always wear a Nixon mask anyway.
It would be totally corrupt to charge or convict the registered owner for a moving violation in lieu of positive ID or a confession from the vehicle operator if they can’t be positively ID’d actually committing the offense.
Total corrupt BS.
Timely. IL wants to pass a bill for going around school bus stop arms and charging the registered person, no matter who was driving. Cameras can recognize the plate, but not the face.
At some point I am going to wake up and be able to write a great piece about the longest running nightmare I have ever had.
Yep,but until then,keep on fighting any way you can.
Sorry, bud. There’s no waking up from this shit show.
Some day they will replace Florida beach sand with black volcanic sand shipped in from Hawaii, you know, because equity.
They won’t have to. Because soon everything will be the same color.
ASH GREY!!!
As these ideas are Un-Constitutional, it comes down to the States to go along with it or nullify or ignore the edict. Sure, you want federal transportation dollars you have to erect cameras. Don’t turn them on. Let Mayor Pete and his communist comrades come turn them on and pay for the care and maintenance.
Or,just destroy these cameras/just saying.
https://allpoetry.com/The-Hand-That-Signed-The-Paper
The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.
i’m not sure how cameras work in other states, but when I was living in NC, someone read the statewide redlight camera law, and BEHOLD!!! It stated that “90% of revenues must be allocated to the municipality’s public school fund”. The company running the program in Charlotte was getting a 50% cut.
My hispanic employees were getting 8-10/month at $50 each.
OH- The cams disappeared literally overnight.
Most are financed and managed by a private company with the city/county/state getting a small slice of the proceeds.
That was the case in CLT. SC does not allow speed/redlight cams. If I were more computer literate, I’d attach a pic of myself with Rep. Joe (You Lie!) & his son Alan (our AG) in a box at a Clempson game from 2009.
BTW, our Gov Henry McMaster sounds like what everyone thinks a SC Gov should sound like.
Simple,kill all cameras.
Tis our Trucker Convoy answer.
Again:,kill all cameras.
Truck goes “Honk!honk!”
Canadian Goose also goes “Honk!honk!”.
Calling him an idiot would be an insult to all the other idiots.
So deaths are up 40% for the 18-65 age group, likely from the jab, but Mr. Potatohead says he’s going to cure cancer, and “pothole Pete” from South Bend claims he’s going to prevent all highway deaths. How about ending all jab mandates and banning all future jabs? Speed cameras are highly vulnerable, especially to spray paint.
They’ll probably just change the definition of Cancer. No more Cancer, thus Cancer is cured. Simples.
Sorry I’m late to the party. Buttplug is a moron, but I challenge any of you to take the white-nuckle drive from Kingwood to Cleveland on I-69 at 3:30 any weekday afternoon and survive the Oil Field Trash in their contractor-white pickups.
I vote for vigilante justice in this situation.
I fear vigilante justice is the only justice left in this country
The funniest thing about this article is how Admin flagged it with “Pete Buttigieg is a fake.”
Fuck these motherfucking fuckers.
“Pete wants fewer roads.”
And Eisenhower’s grave rotation speed goes up another 1000 rpm.
This guy’s an idiot and should NEVER have been hired for any Fedgov service, much less an entire DEPARTMENT!
hang the freaking commie pervert before he can do any more damage than he has already done.
Ahh the United States Of America , with all the rights and freedoms we are endowed with by our creator what ever you perceive it or him/her to be !
Makes it a dangerous place to live ! We are so fortunate to have a gaggle of parasitic do gooders to step in on our behalf to swab the spit out of the back of our throats
Big Brother is watching , listening and keeping account of every minuscule part of our lives !
Let’s rise up and strangle all the parasitic growths that have evolved for their vision of the greater good !
I believe the Infrastructure Bill allocated 17 billion for the Trans Secretary to spend as he wished. I can’t spell his name and won’t dignify him by trying.
I just call him Butt Gigger.
OOH! Catchy! I have memory issues, Butt Gigger works!
Pete needs to get down on his knees and then open his mouth or drop his pants and bend over for his loved one to solve all his problems.
I’m reminded of this 1984-esque Rush song:
My uncle has a country place, that no-one knows about
He says it used to be a farm, before the Motor Law
Sundays I elude the ‘Eyes’, and hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire, where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine –
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris, that hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta, from a better, vanished time
Fire up the willing engine, responding with a roar!
Tires spitting gravel, I commit my weekly crime…
Wind in my hair –
Shifting and drifting –
Mechanical music
Adrenalin surge –
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside…