Republicans aren’t pro-life on speed cameras

The ruling from the Iowa DOT to shut off some speed cameras stinks of the political will of Sen. Brad Zaun and his anti-speed camera Republicans.

They couldn’t just ban the cameras, so they regulate them out of use. They call themselves “pro-life” but are pro-death on any effective system that prevents crashes because they get their election funding from Big Business and Big Trucking and places that think time, profits, schedule and convenience are more important than the lives that get in their way, and they’re afraid they might get zapped when driving their own vehicles. They don’t get any election funding from the victims that get run over.

There are better systems than cameras. Google “intelligent speed adaptation.” But the anti-speed camera lawmakers and zealots would blow their fuses if anyone proposed such a system.

If the religious anti-abortion zealots lived up to their claims of being pro-life, they’d be demanding that such high tech systems be put in use, but that “sanctity of life” gets dumped when they get in their high-speed machines. The writers of the Bible didn’t foresee a time when everyone uses a deadly machine when traveling that is capable of killing others, so they find nothing wrong with the killing that comes from it. Pro-life hypocrisy on this issue (and several others) has made me dump religion and the Republicans.

Herman Lenz

Sumner