We're the Only Ones A Scanner Darkly Enough

Lomita has become the latest South Bay city to begin using computerized technology capable of scanning thousands of license plates a day.

It is presently the only local city that contracts with the Sheriff's Department for law enforcement services to use what's known as automatic number plate recognition. (Carson had one, but the car it was installed in was totaled in a crash.)

That last bit actually made me laugh. It's the only thing about hurtling headlong into the total surveillance state that does, all aided and abetted by our friends, the "Only Ones."

Good thing "the American Civil Liberties Union has signed off on the idea because it does not involve racial profiling." Marxist states like Cuba don't really care what color the proles are, either, and if you have any doubts about the ACLU in Southern California...why that's funny--I just searched their site for three terms, "Heller," "Second Amendment" and "gun" and came up empty on anything resembling a retraction or an apology...

But they've done their job permeating the public consciousness well, you can't argue that. Not only are cities all over the South Bay jumping on board, you even have the mayor of one of the most well-heeled, chock-full-of-capitalist communities, and a lawyer, to boot, someone who probably once took a college-level multiple choice test on the Bill of Rights by his sophomore year, asking "Should you really have an expectation of privacy when you drive on a public street?"

Of course not, Mr. Mayor. Any more than we'd expect our First Amendment right to be recognized if we, say, videotaped the cop or disagreed with him. Any more than we'd expect our Second Ame...ah, you guys know the drill: Fourth Amendment trunk search, Fifth Amendment self-incrimination, try to exercise any one of these with the attitude that you're a sovereign citizen and let the cruel and unusual punishment begin, on the spot, the streets being Sixth and Eighth Amendment-free zones as well. Should we really have an expectation that it would be otherwise? Hell, we don't even expect these things in our homes anymore.

One final note: Everybody caught the last name of the Lomita community officer, right? I suppose the irony is either lost on him or it's why he chose the line of work he did...