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What a pleasant surprise this ruling is. The DC area (of which Fairfax county is part) is probably one of the most government tracking heavy regions of the US. This is a curve-ball on par with the CA judge that overturned the mag ban recently. I would never have predicted this ruling.

>Nine states have passed laws limiting how long the police can maintain the data, ranging from three minutes (New Hampshire)

Now that I could have predicted. If any state is going to proactively curb law enforcement's capability to build a dragnet it's gonna be NH.

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"This is a curve-ball on par with the CA judge that overturned the mag ban recently."

Wait, what ?

I had no idea this was the case ... fascinating.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/03/john-boch/breaking...

> If any state is going to proactively curb law enforcement's capability to build a dragnet it's gonna be NH.

License plate collection used to be outright prohibited there (with toll both exception) before they caved on Real ID.

>before they caved on Real ID.

I blame that on two things (in no particular order).

1) There's been tons of money dangled in front of state legislators incentivizing them to break from what their constituents actually want because both the national parties want to make the state theirs. If you have enough money (from voting how the people with the money want you to vote) to steamroll whoever you're running against you don't actually have to listen to your constituents that much.

2)The MA 5th column.

> If you have enough money (from voting how the people with the money want you to vote) to steamroll whoever you're running against you don't actually have to listen to your constituents that much.

Perhaps we need to reconsider the idea of running government on the basis of a popularity content. Perhaps we should give strange women lying in ponds dispensing swords a reconsideration.

> Perhaps we should give strange women lying in ponds dispensing swords a reconsideration.

Bring back Monarchy and Manifest Destiny? How would that be any different than what we have now? Money can be used to influence Kings and Kingdoms just as easily as politicians.

If we could ever secure mobile devices and servers well enough, I think a direct democracy could be interesting. Mob rule, for all it's faults, still works better than having a ruling class.

> Perhaps we need to reconsider the idea of running government on the basis of a popularity conte_s_t.

Have I spotted a Dvorak user in the wild? :)

>2)The MA 5th column.

Build the wall.

It would be an even more pleasant surprise if the judge put some teeth in the ruling and awarded every person whose license plate was in a surveillance database a penalty, to be charged to the Fairfax police.

  the CA judge that overturned the mag ban recently

Actually a Federal district judge, deciding a case against the CA Attorney General.

What makes NH so special?

NH state motto: "Live Free or Die"

Live free or die, baby!

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