Disconnect on surveillance?

As I easily stopped for a yellow light this afternoon, a driver in the other lane came whipping by me and went through the light that had already turned red.  If there had been a surveillance camera at that intersection, he or she would soon be receiving a ticket.

However, many consider robo-cops a bad idea, an infringement of rights, etc. etc.

My question is, of the people who protest about being caught disobeying a traffic law, how many are all for the excessive NSA surveillance of telephone and internet usage?

In the first case, a person is caught doing something illegal.  In the second case, a person may only be thought to be doing something illegal.

Whether one is killed or injured by a terrorist with a bomb or killed or injured by somebody running a red light is rather a moot point.  One is just as dead or hurt by either illegal activity.

Another witty ditty mined from my mind

Ginger the singer was singed by something rude and lewd zinged from the crowd.

Cartoon of the day: elections and ID

See "Clarifying Recent Changes to Our Electoral System", Matt Wuerker, Politico, May 2012, reposted by The Coffee Party on Facebook, 2013-03-16.  Wuerker points out the inconsistencies for photo ID on voting in an election and buying an election.

On the consistency of English pronunciation

I ponder as I wander
That ponder rhymes not with wonder.
As through the path I wound
I noticed a tree with a wound.
I shed a tear
For it was a pear.

And, there was no damage to the aged garage after the rummage sale.