The Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Diversion (UVED) Program is a statewide initiative aimed at reducing the number of uninsured vehicles on Oklahoma roadways, but is that all it does?
While most of the human race has been content to doomscroll the self-regenerating 'covid' craze and other fact-free memetics of this third decade of the Century of Stupid, meanwhile the foremost threat to liberty and the rule of law has only benefited from all this fashionable paranoia: the surveillance state. And this is only a loose and by now anachronistic term to describe what has been in the making since long before another panic-driven consumer craze called 'Y2K': it is now a fact of the human condition that one may expect to be under surveillance anywhere and at any time, and that to an increasing extent one might find oneself waylaid by law enforcement or other official organs, for any reason or for no genuine reason at all.
Fabricating casework out of charged electrons has proven such an overwhelming temptation to the official sector that the ideas of rule of law or professional ethics or the Constitution itself are by now being regarded as cliches, and as already forfeit to this new mass addiction to techno-gimmickry which has proven far more harmful to humanity than any of its benefits could ever measure up against.
And it's only going to get worse, fueled primarily by a mass superstition that says surveillance is everywhere and we can't stop it. I fear that the rule of genuine law has already been the first casualty of this calamitous FOMO stampede into cyber-governance, and the most portentous thing is to what extent nobody seems to have a problem with that.
I know I do, and I know I have no intention of being reduced to the status of merely a potential case by government cyber-vigilantism and its beneficiaries, not without a fight.
While most of the human race has been content to doomscroll the self-regenerating 'covid' craze and other fact-free memetics of this third decade of the Century of Stupid, meanwhile the foremost threat to liberty and the rule of law has only benefited from all this fashionable paranoia: the surveillance state. And this is only a loose and by now anachronistic term to describe what has been in the making since long before another panic-driven consumer craze called 'Y2K': it is now a fact of the human condition that one may expect to be under surveillance anywhere and at any time, and that to an increasing extent one might find oneself waylaid by law enforcement or other official organs, for any reason or for no genuine reason at all.
Fabricating casework out of charged electrons has proven such an overwhelming temptation to the official sector that the ideas of rule of law or professional ethics or the Constitution itself are by now being regarded as cliches, and as already forfeit to this new mass addiction to techno-gimmickry which has proven far more harmful to humanity than any of its benefits could ever measure up against.
And it's only going to get worse, fueled primarily by a mass superstition that says surveillance is everywhere and we can't stop it. I fear that the rule of genuine law has already been the first casualty of this calamitous FOMO stampede into cyber-governance, and the most portentous thing is to what extent nobody seems to have a problem with that.
I know I do, and I know I have no intention of being reduced to the status of merely a potential case by government cyber-vigilantism and its beneficiaries, not without a fight.