This will never pass, for the very violations of rights that you mentioned.
There's no way anyone will vote for "homing beacons" to be placed on their
cars. That's just ridiculous.

-FroBro Q-Tip


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From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of
ken@highpointer.com
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:07 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Oregon bureaucrats propose using GPS to track each
driver's mileage


I heard this on Rush Limbaugh's morning update on KFYI.  Rush described a
plan being considered in Oregon where the state's Department of
Transportation would attach a GPS device to each car and track the mileage
driven by each motorist.  The state officials would use the mileage recorded
from each driver to tax that driver accordingly to pay for road repairs.

I was incredulous to believe that such an Orwellian plan could be seriously
considered anywhere in the USA.  Adopting such a proposal would be a clear
violation of our civil liberties and constitutional rights.  Therefore, I
had to find out for myself whether it is true that such a plan is being
considered.  The results of my research show that this is actually a
proposal by an Oregon State task force.  Here are some articles of
commentary about this nutty scheme:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/2/101712.shtml
http://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/archive/200301/POL20030102a.html
http://www.monokromatik.com/veethree/?viewNewsItem=1&newsitemid=627

If, God forbid, this proposal is adopted, the government will be able to
know wherever we are in our vehicles at any time, Big Brother-style.

As GPS users and motorists (and, I hope, as Americans who cherish their
freedoms and liberties), what do you think about this?

Ken Akerman (a.k.a. Highpointer)


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