by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
Mandates square with Trump’s advancement of a digital surveillance state coming at us from all angles
Yesterday, in an underreported story, 57 Republican members of Congress joined Democrats in voting down an amendment that would have repealed Joe Biden’s mandatory automobile kill switch.
“Kill switch” you ask? What is that all about?
In a back-page article Fox News casually reports:
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“Fifty-seven Republicans voted with the vast majority of Democrats on Thursday to keep a Biden-era mandate enabling government remote control of vehicles, drawing backlash from conservatives like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
Government remote control of our vehicles? In America? This should be the biggest screaming headline of the day, and yet most Americans aren’t even aware of it.
Fox further reports:
“The group voted to defeat an amendment proposed by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that would have rolled back government requirements for the development of a ‘kill switch’ to disable the cars of impaired drivers.”
Massie’s amendment failed by a vote of 164-268.
Ah, but it’s only for drunk drivers, the propagandists tell us. It’s for our safety!
“The idea that the federal government would require auto manufacturers to equip cars with a ‘kill switch’ that can be controlled by the government is something you’d expect in Orwell’s 1984,” DeSantis said, referring to the fictional novel by George Orwell warning more than 75 years ago of a coming global totalitarianism that would include the Western “free” world.
Where did this Orwellian legislation originate from, you ask?
You may recall that one of former President Joe Biden’s landmark pieces of legislation was his nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill, passed by Congress in 2021.
It was hundreds of pages long, and buried in that bill was a measure that requires automobile manufacturers to include a remote kill switch in all new vehicles made or imported into the United States starting in 2026.
I’ve been waiting to see what the Trump administration was going to do with this provision calling for a mandatory kill switch.
Yesterday, the answer was received, loud and clear. They’re totally for it.
The amendment to kill the “kill switch” was offered by Rep. Massie, a Kentucky Republican who Trump hates and is trying to defeat in this year’s primary election.
Massie stated in a post to X:
“Unfortunately, the amendment I offered to defund the federally mandated automobile kill switch did not pass. 57 Republicans joined 211 Democrats to defeat it.”
Massie is one of a small handful of Republicans in Congress who actually cares about the people and preserving what’s left of our freedom.
