Mark Steyn: Your family is being watched 24-7 ( Britain)

Macleans.ca ^ | 3 September 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

Steyn on public cameras.

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[Sudetenland]

COMING SOON TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU!

Your tax dollars at work!

...courtesy of Our Beloved Leader Barack Hussein Obama, President For Life. :)

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A recent government study had concluded that the system had failed in its primary objective: deterring crime and apprehending criminals.

But actually, in Britain, the purpose of the cameras is to identify the victims, so they can be more effectively prosecuted.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

If there's a government poster been made more reminiscent of "1984", I haven't seen it.

[maine-iac7]

Coming our way - This month the “Secretary of State for Children” (another Orwellian touch) announced that 20,000 “problem families” would be put under 24-hour CCTV supervision in their homes. As the Daily Express reported, “They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.” Orwell’s government “telescreen” in every home is close to being a reality

caneras everywhere and yet -

the ubiquitous network of 10,000 closed-circuit television cameras that gave London’s Metropolitan Police the ability to monitor activity, criminal or otherwise, on virtually every street in the British capital. A recent government study had concluded that the system had failed in its primary objective: deterring crime and apprehending criminals. Only three per cent of street robberies were solved using CCTV technology, and crime rates in London were soaring. Embarrassed police officials explained away the failure by pointing out that the criminals had accounted for the cameras by adjusting their tactics, such as wearing masks and hats to conceal their identities. Apparently, no one in charge had considered that possibility before spending hundreds of millions of pounds and invading the public’s privacy on an unprecedented scale.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Ayn Rand had a term for it: the sanction of the victim.

[Bokababe]

Interesting article.

My husband & I watch a lot of BBC America TV and he once said to me, “Why are all the young people always wearing hoodies?” Now we know.

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[CitizenUSA]

I all so terribly sad to see a people once free fall under tyranny. The world owes so much to the British empire which carried civilization to the far reaches of the globe (I’ll probably have to be re-educated for my anti-multicultural thoughts).

One can see where the world is heading. Oh, I have hope that we can delay the inevitable slide, at least here in the US, but technology favors the totalitarians.

And, I think it’s important to note that it’s very, very difficult to avoid the slow creep into totalitarianism. The British might have been up in arms (when they had them) had the government proposed this dreadful CCTV network right off.

My point?

We’d better start putting the proverbial foot down and hold it, or we’ll be in the same sorry state before long!

[COUNTrecount]

Thank you.

[cookcounty]

Seriously "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" is an actual poster??????

That really makes my skin crawl.

[DaveTesla]

“Ayn Rand had a term for it: the sanction of the victim.”

So others may understand:

The “sanction of the victim” is the willingness of the good to suffer at the hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the “sin” of creating values.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sanction_of_the_victim.html

[LibFreeOrDie]

The poster first appeared in London bus shelters in 2002.

[WoofDog123]

I looked and looked for one of those for sale on the net, ebay etc. when I first read about this poster years ago, but never found one....

[Cacique]

btt

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Not too sound like a complete nutcase but I have HEARD that the reason our government pushed for the whole nationwide digital TV thing was because of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4iIM8Eljc

[Freedom56v2]

Could be the book cover for 1984 :(

[GeronL]

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