The supreme court did not overturn election results. According to the count, George W Bush won the vote in florida, thus winning the electoral college. Even though Gore won the popular vote in the nation, Bush won due to the Constitution.
I'm sure you can remove that little clause in the constitution if you like, but if you do, i'm sure you won't mind other people removing Article 1, which allowed you to post this unthought post without fear of reprimand.
People who trade freedoms for security will get nothing and deserve neither.
Oh...the other part that concerns me is the "photos only of crimina/fugitives". Sounds all well and good, but the surveillance was also supposed to only be monitored live by Officers in the local PD down the road.
What creeps me out is the fact that my renewed drivers license came the other day. I didn't have to go take a picture or anything. It arrived in the mail with my picture from 5 years ago, in better quality than the original. Not a big leap from DMV Database to BigBrother 0wnz j00 Tracking system.
The video system in Ybor City has bee in place on the main drag (7th Avenue) for a couple of years. It pretty much went up without any fan fare, and the PD said it was for better crowd control during weekends and Gasparilla and Guavaween, when Certified Madness takes over the place. Now, as of last week I hear they are augmenting the system with face recognition.
Now, whats REALLY interesting about all this is that Ybor city has gone froma place of miscreants and party goers helbent on rowdiness to a "High Class Locale" and Family Entertainment Venue in less than a year. What was once projects and low quality commercial and industry has become Luxury Apartments (that caught fire and burnt the local Post Office down...). Prior to the interests of a HUGE complex called Centro Ybor and the $$$$ for development, the place was a police wasteland where the boys in blue pretty much treated it as ground zero.
Needless to say, this has ruined the club scene.:)
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I'm sure you can remove that little clause in the constitution if you like, but if you do, i'm sure you won't mind other people removing Article 1, which allowed you to post this unthought post without fear of reprimand.
People who trade freedoms for security will get nothing and deserve neither.
What creeps me out is the fact that my renewed drivers license came the other day. I didn't have to go take a picture or anything. It arrived in the mail with my picture from 5 years ago, in better quality than the original. Not a big leap from DMV Database to BigBrother 0wnz j00 Tracking system.
The video system in Ybor City has bee in place on the main drag (7th Avenue) for a couple of years. It pretty much went up without any fan fare, and the PD said it was for better crowd control during weekends and Gasparilla and Guavaween, when Certified Madness takes over the place. Now, as of last week I hear they are augmenting the system with face recognition. Now, whats REALLY interesting about all this is that Ybor city has gone froma place of miscreants and party goers helbent on rowdiness to a "High Class Locale" and Family Entertainment Venue in less than a year. What was once projects and low quality commercial and industry has become Luxury Apartments (that caught fire and burnt the local Post Office down...). Prior to the interests of a HUGE complex called Centro Ybor and the $$$$ for development, the place was a police wasteland where the boys in blue pretty much treated it as ground zero. Needless to say, this has ruined the club scene.:) SasserianSection