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   Rhino to All   
   Re: Oxford, England Becomes First Offici   
   30 Jan 26 18:58:09   
   
   From: no_offline_contact@example.com   
      
   On 2026-01-30 1:51 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Jan 30, 2026 at 5:35:03 AM PST, "Rhino"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-01-29 11:54 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   First Spain grants citizenship to a half-million illegals and now the   
   Oxford   
   >>>   Council votes to impose digital walls on all its citizens. The globalist   
   >>>   elites are really just taking the masks off and putting their New World   
   >>> Order   
   >>>   agenda on display right out into the open now, aren't they?   
   >>>   
   >>>   Oxford already started the conversion project several years ago-- as it   
   >>>   becomes the first official World Economic Forum-planned "15-minute city',   
   >>>   where Oxford is divided up into six zones. You're given predetermined   
   routes   
   >>>   you must drive to get from place to place, your car tracked in real time,   
   >>>   everything monitored by a panopticon of cameras and e-gates. You must   
   have a   
   >>>   permit to leave your assigned zone and you're only allowed 100   
   permits/year.   
   >>>   After that, punishing fines start arriving if you leave your   
   >>>   government-imposed 15 minutes of freedom.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2015917825903263745/vi   
   /avc1/1280x704/v0SJi25gYb5punKO.mp4   
   >>>   
   >>>   So far, it seems like this digital prison only applies to your car. There   
   >>>   doesn't seem to be any prohibition on walking or biking between the zones   
   >>> and   
   >>>   I bet someone on a motorcycle could avoid the digital barriers also.   
   >>>   
   >>>   I told you back in 2017 that this was coming. Every major American and   
   >>>   Canadian city (and many of the minor ones) all already have "15-minute   
   city"   
   >>>   plans drawn up. It's only a matter of time before they impose their   
   digital   
   >>>   prison on you, too.   
   >>>   
   >>>   Yet another "conspiracy theory" confirmed as truth.   
   >>>   
   >> I saw a video a year or two back - I believe it was from Oxford - and   
   >> the guy making it was a motorcyclist. He drove his bike past some of the   
   >> barriers impeding cars from using certain routes and pointed out that   
   >> several of these barriers had been pushed aside overnight by mysterious   
   >> forces. Clearly, there would be opportunities for people to move these   
   >> obstacles around is they felt so inclined.   
   >>   
   >> The obvious antidote to that is to put up surveillance cameras but that   
   >> won't necessarily solve the problem. There was a particularly notorious   
   >> speed camera in Toronto that got ripped out at least a half dozen times   
   >> AFTER they put up a surveillance camera and no one ever caught the   
   >> guy/group who was doing it. (Then Doug Ford abolished speed cameras   
   >> province-wide.)   
   >   
   > A couple years ago I got a bogus ticket at a red light camera. The light was   
   > obviously malfunctioning. I sat through the entire cycle three times and   
   never   
   > got a green arrow, so I just went through when it was clear, only to get a   
   > dazzling flash in my eyes as the camera went off and took my picture.   
   >   
   > A friend of mine sent me a news article from back in 2010 where a judge had   
   > ruled the county's red light cameras unconstitutional. He told me to just   
   > ignore the ticket since they can't legally enforce it. They just leave the   
   > cameras up because most people don't know they're unenforceable and will just   
   > pay the fine. So I ignored it and it's been two and a half years and nothing   
   > has happened, so I guess my friend was right.   
   >   
   >   
   After the courts ruled the cameras unconstitutional, for the county to   
   leave the cameras up and continuing to send out fine notices and keeping   
   the money starts to resemble criminal activity pretty closely. I'm not   
   sure *what* crime it is closest to but "obtaining money under false   
   pretenses" or "fraud" feel right.   
      
   I'm surprised news of this doesn't spread by word of mouth so that   
   everyone just knows that the tickets can be ignored. Are people afraid   
   that letting the cat out of the bag will enable the government to find   
   some legal way to get the money? I wonder how many people there are who   
   know the tickets are unenforceable and simply decline to pay like you   
   did? An honest journalist - if such a unicorn actually exists - could   
   talkto the county authorities and ask what percentage of people pay   
   their fines and what happens to those who don't, then report on the   
   answer. Overnight, I expect the revenue from those cameras would plummet   
   to near zero.   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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