[Fiddlstix]

......to send out a verbal warning: 'We are watching you'.

Big Brother Is Watching You!
It seems 1984 came a few years later than Orwell anticipated.
(22 year later but who's counting?)

[patriciaruth]

This is scary.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I'm glad I live in the country.

I'm also glad that I got to grow up in a better world than this one and got to know better people.

The 21st century is going to be a real booger and I hate it already.

[Hexenhammer]

"Stop it or I'll yell at you some more!"

[Slings and Arrows]

[Slings and Arrows]

P.S. That pic is directed at the spycams, not you.

[mc6809e]

I don't see anything wrong with this as long as each city can decide for itself whether or not to use these.

[dr_who_2]

You are the dead!

[Lunatic Fringe]

"Smith!" screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. "6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me."

A sudden hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay! Never show resentment! A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above her head and -- one could not say gracefully, but with remarkable neatness and efficiency -- bent over and tucked the first joint of her fingers under her toes.

"There, comrades! That's how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. I'm thirty-nine and I've had four children. Now look." She bent over again. "You see my knees aren't bent. You can all do it if you want to," she added as she straightened herself up. "Anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with. Now try again. That's better, comrade, that's much better," she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.

-1984 (Chapter 3), by George Orwell

[buffyt]

Maybe everyone should just FLASH the cameras! And MOON them.

[Kirkwood]

"This isn't about keeping tabs on people,,,"

Sure it is.

[Dallas59]

SMITH! 4562151 SMITH!

[ozzymandus]

I'd say the minimum-wage rent-a-cop supposedly watching all those monitors is a real weak spot in Big Brother's master plan.

[WoofDog123]

rofl, secure beneath the watchful eyes indeed!!!

[DMedic91B]

They should be very careful about what they decide to shout at these criminals. Scripted speeches for each perceived offense perhaps? After all, you don't want to, in any way, offend or emotionally hurt these lawless yobs.

Murder - 'Sir, we hearby gently request that you stop stabbing that old woman. If you feel that you are a victim of societies pressures on you or you are addicted to any substance, then once you are finished, please come to a local victims assistance center so we can help you press charges on that old woman.'

Only in Britian can you be fined by the police for cursing at the habitual vandals and hooligans they refuse to deal with and jailed for defending your home and property from vicious thugs in the middle of the night after you've been robbed five times already.

[LibWhacker]

Well, people will eventually become very blasé about being barked at all the time, won't they? I suggest Big Brother get to work right away on those submission collars Kirk and crew had to wear in "The Gamesters of Triskellon."

[Lazamataz]

The system allows control room operators who spot any anti-social acts - from dropping litter to late-night brawls - to send out a verbal warning: 'We are watching you'.

The novel "1984" has gone from a fictional warning to a training manual for government.

[OldSmaj]

"This isn't about keeping tabs on people..."

Oh, really?

Ever notice how the nanny-state tries to spin this kind of silliness?

It's all about keeping tabs on people, you bunch of damned idiots!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

If it comes here, I'm checking out. Seriously. It's misery enough with the @#$%&*! buses, but now to have people monitoring our every move, and barking at us... No! No, thank you!

[MelonFarmerJ]

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