What amount of privacy are citizens willing to give up for perceived and actual improvements in safety?
I believe it was Ben Franklin who said, "They that can give up essential liberties in order to gain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security." I live in B-more and I don't feel any safer.
Oh, and the local TV news coverage was incredibly disturbing.
In the teaser for the story, the anchorbimbo said in her most incredulous tone "These cameras will be there to protect you, so why is there debate?" The really funny part was that the above quote was the only mention of there being any debate at all.
B-more is where they tested the cameras on public transit and street corners too, back when I was in college (the first time). BWI is where they're testing the "registration" of all foreigners entering or leaving the US. Baltimore may be a complete cultural wasteland, but hey, we are on the cutting edge of America's slide into fascism.
BTW, funny synchronicity The article on the first camera pilot program was, I kid you not, in the campus newspaper that I picked up for light reading right after I finished reading 1984. Talk about your heebie-jeebies!
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I believe it was Ben Franklin who said, "They that can give up essential liberties in order to gain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security." I live in B-more and I don't feel any safer.
Oh, and the local TV news coverage was incredibly disturbing. In the teaser for the story, the anchorbimbo said in her most incredulous tone "These cameras will be there to protect you, so why is there debate?" The really funny part was that the above quote was the only mention of there being any debate at all.
B-more is where they tested the cameras on public transit and street corners too, back when I was in college (the first time). BWI is where they're testing the "registration" of all foreigners entering or leaving the US. Baltimore may be a complete cultural wasteland, but hey, we are on the cutting edge of America's slide into fascism.
BTW, funny synchronicity The article on the first camera pilot program was, I kid you not, in the campus newspaper that I picked up for light reading right after I finished reading 1984. Talk about your heebie-jeebies!