I really thank you

I realize, I am actually sketching out my thoughts through this blog and my thoughts can be the "long-way" to the idea. So, I really appreciate your patients especially since it takes reading through all the blog posts to understand how my ideas transformed and how my perceptions transformed as well.

I find it funny, that I wanted to see how a governmental bodies choice of using traffic cameras transformed the act of driving and the perceptions of the driver. But, I realize that in my examination of traffic cameras, I started to see how traffic cameras can transform reality. If the traffic cameras turns a registered car into a brush of guilt that travels the city streets, then that same brush of guilt can paint new patterns across the city maps, states maps, country maps and world maps. Simple political decisions for "Public Safety"* can be turned into art. Wow! For this art to work. Not only does their need to be an artist to say go, but there needs to be people out on the streets allowed to take the ball and go with it.

My future hope is that I get the chance to implement this idea. Because I can see further unseen transformation learned from the implementation!

*Public Safety. If the traffic cameras were really for public safety, then the traffic citations would go on your driving record. When the citation acts more like a courtesy fine (i.e. put a dollar in the box if you accidentally swear or get caught drinking the last cup of coffee and not brewing a new pot), then no real safety is gained. My belief is it is the risk-takers who created need for the traffic cameras. Those risk-takers need real punitive punishment which may or may not encourage them to change their behavior. Most risk-takers will not be phased by a fine which will not impact your ability to get a driver's license or impact your insurance premiums or your ability to get insurance. What the traffic cameras smack of is an end run around the Constitution and the Burden of Proof. Other states have found it hard to enforce citations from traffic cameras when the state still must show that the person receiving the citation was also the driver at the time of the violation. Iowa figured out how to work around that and make sure revenue flows into municipalities. That is not safety, that is a money grab, another tax for registered vehicle owners. Those that founded this nation, may see how Iowa has implemented traffic cameras as a form of tyranny, no different than the unjust forms of taxation Great Britain yoked the Colonies with.