Huiming: The story of Tucson's referendum against cameras

Huiming: The story of Tucson's referendum against cameras Tucson Huiming Tucson is a very small town in the United States. Because it is close to the Mexican border, the crowd...

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Tucson is a very small town in the United States. Because it is close to the Mexican border, people move frequently, and the population is often between 500,000 and 1 million. Although there is the University of Arizona and world-class astronomical technology here, in the eyes of Americans, Tucson does not have a famous basketball or football team and is an inconspicuous desert city. At most, some writer remembered this and incorporated the plot of a fugitive murderer into Arizona, so people knew nothing about Arizona and Tucson.

But in 2015, something happened in Tucson that made Americans sit up and take notice.

It turns out that Tucson, like all cities in the United States, has been authorized by the government to use in-car cameras to monitor speeding drivers. I don’t know which good-hearted person thinks this is not enough, and advocates installing cameras at key intersections to fully monitor speeding vehicles. The government departments are very happy, because this will add fines to the government out of thin air, which is said to be 50 million per year. Those who are involved can work hard to increase the pixels of the photography and take a clear picture of the criminal; departments that are not related are also very happy and develop special radars to immediately design programs to remind car owners where there are cameras; those who take pictures of horseback riders immediately find the police department and express their willingness to send photo tickets to the police, etc. There are even more talented people who design special paint and apply it on the license plate. You can usually see the license plate, but when you take a photo, the reflection turns white.

In short, the safety-oriented design has increased revenue for the government and increased employment in many aspects. Tucson was very happy for a while.

But those who are unhappy are the working people who drive, because this annoying camera not only increases fines for many people out of thin air, but also artificially increases many car accidents. Complaints have become louder and louder among the people. Many cameras were painted black at night by angry motorists, and in the most extreme case, a masked gunman smashed the camera lens with a gun.

Many local Americans asked the government to cancel the filming. It is easy and necessary to pay taxes in the United States, but it is even more difficult to get the wrong money back from the government. What's more, there is local legal support behind the cameras this time, so the government departments are very arrogant. Their attitude in answering people's questions is a bit like the self-proclaimed female quasi-president in this election. I already have the power, and I can't do anything about you little shit people, so I condescendingly announced that as long as your proposal against the cameras gets the support of 15,000 people, the government will automatically cancel this money-making machine.

The government really misjudged the people of Tucson this time. They thought that in a world full of old people working to make a living, no one would care about changes in the law. But they just ignored this point. Except for a few people who deliberately ran the red light, the drivers who were caught by the camera were all drivers who usually obeyed the rules and hesitated in front of the light. The author was fortunate enough to attend a study class for the person who was photographed causing the accident. In addition to young students, the participants also included teachers from many companies’ management schools, as well as lawyers who usually abide by the rules. An old lady who was about seventy was also a classmate of ours. The difference was that she was like Lu Xun's Sister Xianglin. She always nagged everyone when she saw her, saying that she had fifty years of driving experience and had never had to pay a ticket.

After the government department proposed this objection indicator, advertisements calling on everyone to vote suddenly appeared all over the streets. Somehow, the author immediately felt that it was the silent lawyer who started it, followed by the old lady who was walking tremblingly.

As a result, the government department received 50,000 votes in two weeks. The day after the results were announced, all Tucson's camera lenses were immediately covered with black plastic bags, and the camera van hiding in the dark was also cancelled. I remember that everyone I saw that day was beaming with joy, as if they had picked up a gold ingot.

Suddenly thought of the current election. Now Hillary is a bit like that government spokesperson. She always says that she is the Secretary of State and that all good things are related to her. I am indeed highly educated and highly intelligent. I look down on the tycoon Trump, who is simply a gangster, and even ignore his opinions. But things are unpredictable, and the Tucson incident may also occur in the general election.