Red Light Robin Hood Hero Strikes Again, Risks Years in Jail Destroying Red Light CamerasBy Matt Agorist In a testament to his dedication, almost 8 months later, and hes at it again, and arrested again. Ruth, now 43, was arrested right after a CBS 2 report was published in which headmitted to disabling dozens of cameras over the weekend. Monday night, Ruths son posted the following on his fathers Facebook page: Hi this is Stephens son. My father was just arrested at our house by detectives after being chased by them. He escaped them but when they came to the house he honorably turned himself in because he isnt doing anything wrong. Hes just trying to help people and save lives. Ruth is charged with two counts of second degree criminal mischief, a felony, police said. If convicted, Ruth faces up to 7 years in prison on each count. Ruths arrest comes just days afterSuffolk County Legislator Robert Trotta called for the suspension of the countys red light camera program. Calling it Taxation by Citation, Trotta pointed out how the cameras have generated nearly $28 million in a year, but noted how nearly half the intersections with cameras have seen an increase in accidents. Last year, Ruth was frustrated after receiving six tickets, and wanted to make a statement about the revenue-generating scam, so he decided to get creative. In the video, Ruth used a pole to shift the view of the camera into the sky, saying that he saved innocent drivers at least 10,000 today. [The red light cameras are] abusive. People are making full stops and theyre still getting tickets. Make a right after making sure no one is coming on the left, and you still get the ticket in the mail, Ruth told NBC 4 New York. Its abuse on the hard-working American and with the taxes we pay; its not necessary, he said, adding that he was proud of what he did, even though he got arrested. Naturally, I thought I was going to be arrested. I thought it was a cause I was willing to fight for and I am still willing to fight for otherwise I wouldnt be incriminating myself on Facebook, he said. After reports of this story went viral, Ruth became an Internet legend and a hero to the people of Suffolk. Suffolk Police Commanding Officer Milagros Soto disagrees, however, saying that Ruth is a criminal and not a hero. [The red light cameras are] placed at specific locations where theres been high rates of crashes. Tampering with these cameras is a crime, Soto said. Image Credit Matt Agorist is the co-founder of TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. He is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist Our government is nothing more than a legalized Mafia. The top leadership is worse than MAFIA leadership. MAFIA are more human and have some civility. Not even legal, half the crap they do. In most cases, state and local governments arrange to lease the cameras from companies taking a cut of ticket revenue first, with the excess going to the states and municipalities. Occasionally, all the profit is going to the private corporations, not to the city or the state, which in addition to infringement issues will ultimately lead to their disuse. The merger of State and Corporations is the working definition of Fascism. LONG LIVE Red Light Robin Hood may the red light cameras dissolve before our eyes and before they can issue tickets. A simple LED light will have no effect. Other than to get yourself put in jail. A very interesting right = to drive through red lights at will. Better to get rid of the cars = save 33,000 lives every year. [The red light cameras are] abusive. People are making full stops What do you expect a person to say, who has gotten a ticket for running a red light? Americas penitentiaries are filled with innocent victims of police frame ups not! More not fewer speed and red light cameras. Those things are the worst. Theyre dangerous. People see em at the last second and come to a screeching halt the second a light turns yellow fearing a ticket. Its a natural reaction. Not to mention theyve got nothing to do with safety in the first place, plus they shorten the time of the yellow to generate more revenue, making them even worse than otherwise. They should ban those things outright. Respectfully, those red light cameras are probably the reason for the crashes in some cases. The ones they installed here in Escambie and Santa Rosa Counties Florida emit a bright flash which blinds drivers for up to 15 seconds. Thats a stretch It got worse after George H. W. Bush appeared or was created and joined the USNavy in 1942. The subterfuge increased after he appeared in TX in 1948 and became an oil tycoon. With his election to congress, the subterfuge began to mushroom. All law enforcement is for profit. Privitized jail, probation, drug testing criminals, tethers, lawyerseveryone gets paid, except the poor saps enforcing these laws. If people just followed the rules of the road, they wouldnt get speeding or red light camera tickets. But that being said, they always shorten up the yellow light time in order to get more citations to make more revenue, PLUS, collisions go up at intersections where the cameras are and they are often times worse than they would normally have been because people speed up to avoid being caught by the cameras. The $42.4 billion payout they try to hook you with in ads here is really just being able to claim a sales tax deduction. My tax attorney told me that is what it is. They call it a payout or rebate, but it is only a deduction that your tax guy will tax anyway. I hate the way they try to manipulate us with their false headlines! Now if someone would do something about those ubiquitous police cameras staring down inside our cars 24/7, such as here in Bullhead City, Arizona and across this once-free country, before lunatics began getting away with their indecencies. Sorry but no sympathy here. The problem is the cars themselves not the system meant to profit from the cars use. Maybe if gasoline cost $10/gallon (and electricity $1/kwh) there would be no need for automated fee collection; as it is, the fees are too low and more of the nuisance variety instead of the means to reduce driving in a meaningful way. Because there is no meaningful administrative reduction in driving there will be the other kind the kind where the entire country is bankrupted and NOBODY has any fuel. Go ahead and scoff but this dynamic is underway right now under yours and everyone elses nose and there is not a thing anyone can do about it. Are you retarded? Personally, I dont care. But your car (and your parents and theirs) have bankrupted the entire world. That means YOU and YOURS are going to pay and you have no idea what kind of payments your and yours are going to have to make. Crash in oil prices is the overture. You could of just said yes. The problem is cars? A non sequitur and a whole different conversation. Youve no sympathy for someone whos law abiding and been blamelessly victimized by an incompetent bureaucracy? Ill leave you to the opaque conversation youre having with yourself Nope, cars are fair game. Get rid of them and there are no problems with EZ Pass or red-light cameras. A solution as wise as it is a germane retort. The real criminals are the erectors of red light cameras for the purpose of picking the publics pocket and have the gall to expect the citizenry to believe its all for safety. [The red light cameras are] placed at specific locations where theres a high expectation of income, not safety. Highway robbery under color of law. The cameras and the pilfering public servants need to come down. Jury nullification would put a stop to this. 