I don’t know anyone in favor of unmanned camera speed traps, and yet they are popping up like mushrooms all over the nation.  South Carolina is moving in the right direction.  The outcry against Ridgeland, SC’s infamous unmanned camera speed traps on Interstate 95 provoked a new state law that prohibits the town from mailing speeding tickets to their victims.
        This is a start, but I have a plan to totally stop this manifestation of Big Brother.  In a way it is not my fight.  I always drive the speed limit, but I have seen the misery suffered by the victims and want to help. A caller to a radio talk show told of driving a rental car along with the other members of a theater group.  One member took the car out alone one night and drove over the speed limit past an unmanned camera speed trap.  The caller, who was not even in the car, received a ticket in the mail.  This really burns me.  If one day out of the kindness of my heart I want to loan my car to Muammar Gaddafi, I don’t want to be responsible for his speeding tickets.
        In this age of crony capitalism, individuals seem to be powerless against these arbitrary policies of faceless bureaucracies.  With the government cozying up to select corporations my idea is to involve the face of one of these corporations. I can’t visualize the face of GE or GM, but I know that the face of the McDonalds Corporation is Ronald McDonald.  I understand that the McDonalds Corporation got an exemption from Obamacare so it must have the ear of our ever more intrusive government.
        As I understand it, the victims of these unmanned speed trap cameras receive a ticket that includes a photo of the car license plate and the driver as seen through the windshield.  On November 11, 2011 I want everyone outraged by these cameras to put on a mask of Ronald McDonald and speed through their local unmanned camera speed trap.  As Ronald McDonald starts to receive thousands of speeding tickets, the McDonald’s corporation will be forced to contact its pals in high places to rid the nation of these scourges.
        Let me know how it works out.  Unfortunately, I will be out of the country on 11-11-11 so I will not be able to participate.  Send this message to everyone that you know or your lug nuts will fall off.