The Feds want to jam your phone?

Ray La Hood, US Transportation Secretary, thinks he has the power to keep you from having mobile phone access.

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If the government starts putting cell phone jammers in cars, I, for one, will start offering services to disable them.

Remember "seat belt interlocks"? I had a bunch of customers back when I had my car repair business who paid me to disable these. They often failed and prevented the car from starting at all - just when you needed to get going. Stupid idea, with a noble root - keep the ignorant idiot public from driving un-belted. I can only imagine how many crimes occurred because the victim's car wouldn't start RIGHT NOW.

Any interference with communications in cars will instantly have very serious unintended consequences, such as assault, rape, murder, and deaths preventable by a quick phone call. Would this system also interfere with people using hands-free phones now built into many vehicles, that use BlueTooth to communicate with your cell phone? This is right up there in the stupid idea column along with banning guns in certain places, ensuring the only people armed there will be the bad guys.

The First Amendment to our much-abused Constitution states that gov't will make no law infringing the right to freedom of speech. This sure as hell is such an infringement.

That said, prosecute ANYONE driving recklessly, for any reason. We don't need yet more nanny-state do-gooders screwing up our lives. If many of the officers now assigned to sit in wait in speed traps were out there patrolling, and nailing people like this woman, some of the bad apples would be taken off the road and perhaps people would get the message - watch where you are going and talk later.