What could go wrong?
Posted on 07/05/2011 6:49:40 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Western companies...are poised to help build an ambitious new surveillance project in China...as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will prevent crime but that human-rights advocates warn could target political dissent.
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What could go wrong?
BIG BROTHER!
test run for the USA
England is the world leader. And they definitely are turning their cameras on their own citizens. There was a story posted here in FR awhile back about a woman who went out to the store and left her 14 year old teenager home to watch her 2 year old and was then later arrested for child neglect... based on evidence obtained from the neighborhood surveillance camera.
And being British, the people just accepted that. Just rolled over, shoved their collective buttocks high in the air, and took it.
And of course there are millions who want the same thing for the USA.
Cisco stock is looking pretty good. I am really happy to see an American Company exporting goods to China.
Installing cameras burns government resources and degrades the public trust and moral. Americans, on the other hand, already have that problem.
When the FBI now admits that they had surveillance tapes at the Oklahoma City Bombing, but can’t find them under court order, the government is no longer our government. I guess McVey won’t be around for that appeal, huh.
In fact, the little town of Tomball, Texas recently received a DHS grant.
They now fly their little spy chopper all about looking for infractions in peoples back yards, multiple red light cameras, countless surveillance cameras all over town, police cruisers employing technology I've not seen before.
WTF? Airport patdowns, lic/reg/insur. checkpoints, surveillance, warrentless searches and on and on.
Are we, the citizens, now suspects? It appears so.
We hardly need a test run. It's been up and running here for quite some time. Chicago has tons of those infernal things and is installing more all the time. I suppose the technology cost curve made it unavoidable as cameras are cheaper than cops. How long before those nodes are able to actually project force? 8-10 years? Maybe.
I remember in the UK a camera operator was ogling some hot chick at a bus stop, while at the same stop an old lady was being beaten up and robbed.
“All you IP are beronging to us. Ha ha ha.”
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