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Posted on 04/29/2007 10:33:14 AM PDT by traviskicks
Britain Gets Over-Surveillance Warning By Staff Apr 29, 2007
Britain's information commissioner is poised to tell the government it's gone too far with anti-terror video surveillance measures.
The Independent reported Sunday that Richard Thomas will warn a parliamentary committee about the "slow social suicide" he claims the country is committing with its video cameras, which number about 4 million, or one for every 14 people.
The Home Affairs Select Committee is holding hearings into the expansion of surveillance that includes monitoring microphones being placed in street lamps and offices, the London newspaper said.
Additionally, there was this story last week we pinged to about the gov being able to shout at persons through these cameras:
Big Brother is shouting at you
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405477&in_page_id=1770
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Unbellyfeeling Ingsoc!
Ahm, because the people of Great Britain have allowed socialism to dominate their sovereignty to the point of having to take a milk toast action to to keep terrorism at bay.
What is the percentage of muslims in the population of Great Britain these days?
Coming to our shores soon also if not stifled by our representatives in government.
We scoff at the French and the British while the same thing is happening here.
doubleplus funny!
Looks like Britain needs to read some Orwell.
Like it can’t happen here? Or that it hasn’t already?
I believe that it is happening here as well. I’d say we are about ten years behind Britain. I’m not sure how we can stop it. It scares the hell out of me.
Frankly this hyper hysteric panic and hand wringing by the rabid Know Nothings here about this topic is getting extremely sickening. All the Camera does is allow the patrol van to monitor a greater spread of ground and respond quickly to criminal behavior. It is UTTERLY NO different then having an office on patrol. NO DIFFERENT. To claim it is some how a threat to civil liberties to patrol PUBLIC PLACES with cameras rather then police officers is absurd hysterically stupid nonsense.
Me too.
And you do.
Well, the Brits can’t be trusted with guns so I suppose they do need a higher level of supervision than we do.
It is this sort of hysteric nonsense chicken little behavior that will keep the Libertines forever an irrelevant political splinter faction. WE, as a society, have the right to defend ourselves from those that mean to do harm. This mythical Libertine notion that they have an unlimited right to do anything anytime anywhere with NO consequence is stupid childish nonsense. We also have a right to protect ourselves. Until the Libertines come to grips that with rights comes responsibilities they will just be a noise pack of utterly clueless children.
The real reason the UK needs cameras on every corner is immigration from its former colonies. But that’s not mentioned in this article. They’re not assimilating, so they have to be monitored.
Of course residents in the UK are not free to speak their mind on these things. They might be caught on government cameras and brought up on hate speech charges.
But don’t mind us, we’re just “libertines.”
“We scoff at the French and the British while the same thing is happening here.”
If you aren’t doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about. /Sarcasm
I guess it was utterly too much to expect any sort of rational thought on a Libertine ping. So much easier for them to mindlessly cling to their absurd Anarchists dogmas and hyper paranoia then to ever bother to THINK about anything.
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