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New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown
News.com is reporting that a security system modeled after London's "Ring of Steel" is coming to New York City. The plan, to include license plate readers and over 3,000 public and private security cameras, aims to aid officials in tracking and catching criminals. "But critics question the plan's efficacy and cost, as well as the implications of having such heavy surveillance over such a broad swath of the city. [...] The license plate readers would check the plates' numbers and send out alerts if suspect vehicles were detected. The city is already seeking state approval to charge drivers a fee to enter Manhattan below 86th Street, which would require the use of license plate readers. If the plan is approved, the police will most likely collect information from those readers too, Kelly said."
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben
Part of this (driving below 86th St) is part of Bloomberg's environmental stop global warming initiative. When you consider the fact that all American vehicles put together (not just SUV's but every vehicle) only account for about 6% of Co2 emissions ( in the neighborhood of underground coal fires in China that are blazing out of control) this starts to look more like a money/power grab disguised as environmentalism.
In fact, many environmentalists who really hate Bush are not that far away from him. They just want to take away your freedoms in the name of environmentalism instead of fighting terrorism. Of course, on this site there will be thousands of apologists for destroying the constitution in the name of the environment, but not for stopping terrorists.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
- You want to live somewhere? Cool. So does everyone else. Rents are ridiculously high
Dude, that's called supply and demand. What is your problem? Do you prefer rents to be lower and unavailable to anyone? Your complaint makes no sense.
- You want to go to the movies? Awesome! Plan on either buying your tickets 5 hours in advance online
Wow that's so difficult.
- You want to have a car in Manhattan?
No. The public transport in NY is the best in any city I've ever lived in. Not to mentioned cabs are way cheaper than say London.
- complain, complain
Whatever. New York is great, if you don't like it why do you live there?
-- the only thing we have to fear is really scary things
One can always produce idiot objections to any scenario.
How does that equal "No"?
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