You will soon find speed traps with camera in construction zones in Illinois. Cop-in-a-box, indeed. You say we're far away from the Big Brother state still, but this is just one step closer to a camera being right in your house.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.