The last big poll of Londoners had 84% of them being concerned about ‘climate change’, and at least half were super excited to take action. I doubt they were talking of this type of action in 2022
800 Climate Spy Cameras Damaged or Stolen as London Revolts Against Green Agenda
London’s Metropolitan Police has revealed that nearly 800 spy cameras installed to enforce far-left Mayor Sadiq Khan’s green agenda car tax have been stolen or destroyed since May.
In August, Mayor Khan expanded the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) — a system of fines and levies originally intended to reduce traffic and pollution in Central London — to the entire greater area of the British capital, thereby taxing thousands of workers driving anywhere in the city, including in suburban and semi-rural areas between £12.50 to £27.50 if their vehicle does not meet the local Labour Party government’s climate standards.
The widely unpopular move has been met with widespread acts of civil disobedience, with individuals and groups such as the “Blade Runners” targeting the licence plate reading surveillance cameras that were installed across the city to enforce the green taxes.
According to figures released by the Met Police, there have been reports of 200 of the spy cameras stolen and another 595 being damaged between April 1st and the end of September. The police force said that an operation was launched in May to investigate ULEZ-related crimes, to which the Met said they are dedicating “considerable resources”.
“Where there are possible lines of enquiry, local investigators will follow up using a range of investigative approaches including CCTV trawls, witness searches and an assessment of forensic opportunities,” the capital’s police force said in a statement.
Goodness, that takes cops away from investigating people praying, saying Mean things, and protesting government.
Anyhow, it’s not that surprising that Londoners are taking issue with climate scam initiatives, not when climate nuts like Extinction Rebellion keep holding unhinged demonstrations and blocking the streets and trains, along with gluing themselves to stuff and damaging art.
This is the way..
Be ungovernable..
And similar bovine feces will come our way, as states seek to recover the ‘lost’ fuel tax revenue of plug-in electric vehicles. There will be GPS devices attached to privately-owned vehicles, and then savvy car guys who are able to figure out how to defeat those things, and make millions, all in cash, of course, selling them to the public.
“Don’t worry,” we’ll be told, “these things will only be used to pay for the roads, and nothing more.” But, soon enough, they’ll be used to issue speeding tickets, to see if criminal suspects’ vehicles had been near the scene of a crime. Private investigators will figure out how to hack them, to see if a suspected cheating wife or husband had been at a suspected lover’s house or a Motel 6.
You Will Be Tracked!
You say that like it’s a bad thing. If you weren’t doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. Etc. In truth, there is very little you can publicly do where you are not already tracked. Your phones already do most of this. Where I work, phones are locked in a metal box outside the office.
Correct. We are “voluntarily” tracked by our cell phones and cars.
Ask the SC lawyer and convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh about being tracked. The phone companies (and guvmint) possess info on your locations second by second.
You can’t be naive enough to actually believe that,prof. Also, if you don’t have a cell phone, they can’t track you with it.
The problem with that is that everything will become “wrong” in some way or another so that the gubmint can fine you, ie tax by any other name. It is already happening. If you dont have a problem with that then please give all your money to the gubmint so they can spend it as they see fit.
I’ve always opposed gov’t traffic cameras as intrusive and gubmint overreach. My argument with a Dem politician friend was that it’s a cash grab by municipalities. It seems unfair to fine a citizen for waiting 3 sec instead of 5 at a right turn on red corner. But unlike Mr Teach, I oppose vandalism by vigilantes.
Curiously, no mention of carbon dioxide or global warming. Even in Britain, conservatives are pro nitrogen oxides and particulates!!
When the very government formed to protect rights violates them with impunity, vigilantism is not only justified, but mandatory.
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