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1984 Comes To Boston
walmass writes "In preparation for the DNC in Boston, 75 cameras monitored by the Federal government will be operating around the downtown Boston location. There are also an unspecified number of state police cameras, and 100 cameras owned by the Metro Boston Transit Authority. Quote: 'And it's here to stay: Boston police say the 30 or so cameras installed for the convention will be used throughout the city once the event is over. "We own them now," said police Superintendent Robert Dunford. "We're certainly not going to put them in a closet."'"
The idea is that they will be able to get 1000's of Democrat's faces on camera and stored, facial recognition will then work on profiling them as best it can so they can be classed as terrorists (because they question the great leader bush). As a side line, anyone who so much drops a cigarette on the ground will be charged with a minor offence and their name will be taken off the voter roll (just in time) they will of course get a full apology and have their name put back on after a small 'processing' time which should be done sometime after November 2004. The face recognition database will be used in up-coming Republican rallies so that any Democrats seen there can be quickly moved away. As for monitoring boats, they're just bored.
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You live in a sick sick country. And some call it "The Leader of the Free World(TM)".
What a load of BS.
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- When they start putting cameras in my house or start using satelites to spy on what I'm doing inside my private area thats when its a violation of my right to privacy.
Hey Einstein, by the time the Government starts doing that, it'll be far too late for you to complain. You will already be OwNeD.That's why we must stop this shit NOW, while we still have legal ways and means to speak out against it and limit it.If we all wait to fight this violation until the time you suggest, our options become limited. The citizens would have to resort to armed uprising, or submit to this privacy invasion. I'd rather not live in that world.
I won't even comment on your alias.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
You're right. 1984 has nothing to do with increased government surveillance. Nor does it have anything to do with keeping the people in a state of terror allows the government to steal our liberties. Nor does 1984 have anything to do with the government rewriting history. Finally, 1984 has nothing to do with the world being in a constant state of war to assist in keeping the population in fear.
You know what, paranoid dumbass, cameras have been everywhere for decades. People complained about it when they were installed in banks, in convenience stores. "OMG!!!!11 1984!!!1" Was the only partly coherent thing these morons could get out of their stupid faces. Is the goverment entitled to putting an all-seeing electronic eye in public?
Well, yeah. And so are you.
It's PUBLIC. Nobody owns PUBLIC. Everyone is free to do what they wish as long as it's lawful. Do you have a problem with having news broadcast in front of a window? OMG!!! CAMERA!!!!1 POINTING AT ME! Of course not. Why not? The potential for abuse is there. The reason is quite simple. IT IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT.
One important point you're missing is that you can't use videotape taken of someone in public without their permission. So, no Funniest Home Videos for you.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
First it is provisional cameras just for a big gathering. Then they stay.
Then it will be unprecidented authorities handed over to law enforcing agencies to arest detain, question, interrogate, rough treat anybody under the pretext of security. All of that in the name of democracy and freedom!
Then we wake up in 1952 saluting Josef Stalin's paradise on earth.
It's amazing how gullible people are and willing to be misslead. You twist the truth to your liking and allow people to believe that some evil-doers hate their way of life and that 9/11 practically happened because some people hate football and McDonalds and civilization!
Then you pose the question, "Are you willing to waive some of your basic democratic rights to aid the war for... democracy?"
Most of the people don't even see the contradiction anymore. They were waiting for Spiderman 2 to hit theaters anyway.
Then you mislead people to a war based on lies, supposedly that you want to instill democracy in Iraq so let's bomb the hell out of them.
Sure that makes sense as well! No questions asked all the debate is wheather we should use conventional bombs or small-time nuclear ones.
Hmmm democracy in Iraq? You really want that? That means you want the iraqi people to elect their government and control their fate as a nation? Hmmm so you naturally want the iraqi people to decide how to handle their country's resources on their own? Meaning, you want the iraqi people to decide where, how much and at what currency they want to sell their oil?
Riiiiight! That's what we want! That's why americans are dying right now! Because we want the iraqi people to assume full control over their country's resources!
Amazing but many people actually belive all that crap, not only that but they encourage their kids to go and die for it too!
What would those people think if they learn that in europe for example street cameras are blackened with paint, broken or even burned as a clear civil reaction to the implementation of a police state? And all this is done not from the local anarchy club but many times with the auspicies of local municipalities?
Yeah I know more "freedom haters"...
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About the only one happy about the situation is Osama Bin Laden;
You forgot Halliburton, Bechtel, the Carlyle Group and all the other ass holes who have made billions off this debacle.
How many hundreds of billions of dollars have US tax payers spent on this war so far? You realize that this money hasn't just disappeared. Someone's getting rich.