So, you’re just doing your own thing, minding your own business, when all of a sudden it seems like a cameraman with a huge flash took a picture of your car. You look around and see nobody, but someone is looking, alright. In a few days you receive a ticket in the mail. Some flash, while others do not, but these traffic cameras are always watching, always ready to snitch on the least little infraction.
I was wondering just recently why it is that I cannot stand these cameras. Supposedly, they are instrumental in saving lives by causing people to drive slower and safer. Maybe. I haven’t seen the statistics. But if they are good at saving lives, then why do I abhor those electronic tattle-tales?
The reason these cameras make me so angry is that they are insulting. Quite frankly, they are un-American (seriously). They insult every one who has earned the right to be trusted to act mature. They imply that I am no more responsible than the teenager who can’t be trusted with his parent’s car.
Every year more laws are added to the books by people who seem to feel that if they don’t write laws, then they won’t get re-elected. We don’t need more laws! We also don’t need spying, tattle-telling, big-brother eyes everywhere. Every day that passes brings us closer to a day when this society will crawl in diapers, drink from government-issued bottles, and never think or make decisions for themselves.
The basis for our laws, I believe, is the Ten Commandments. The beauty of our government, as originally intended, however, is that it was to govern a people who were moral, having the law of God written on the heart (Ps 37:32; Jer 31:33). Maturity has a lot to do with it, also. A moral, mature, self-sufficient people don’t need to be monitored at every curve. It’s a lot like grace.
The Recovering Legalist 
Absolutely well said. Better get out and vote!
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