So the contracts have been let, the college is building the blimp, the building is being remodeled, the bus systems have met to decide to share their cameras, and last thing on the schedule is... Announce it and ask the public whether they approve. Too late. The money's been spent. The momentum to gear up is full speed ahead. This is the democracy that we hope to install all over the Middle East, so we start revolutions to kill the people who don't want it.
I expect our "government" (we actually lost all control of it under Reagan) to fall by force of the people in my lifetime. I also expect it to be the bloodiest revolt in history, with other countries eventually stepping in to aid our citizens. The cruel insanity of those actually pulling all the strings now makes Gadafi look like a nanny.
I don't really see that big of a deal here. If I'm accused of a crime, I WANT there to be evidence of someone else doing it (unless I did it, and then I deserve what I get). The creation of video through the use of cameras is much less scary to me than the manipulation of that video... I'm not sure that the government would be more prone to manipulate video than they would, say, DNA evidence or phone records. Ed O.
I think the country will just trail off bloodlessly, through economics. It will just get weaker and weaker from propping up the richest 2%. There will be socialist remedies approved by US intelligence agencies around the 2040s or 2050s, which might delay things a tiny bit. But China is taking over the world, and what is happening will be beyond debate by the 2020s. When we eventually drop the belligerence, we'll just be a Britain, trying hard to be the big guy's little brother.
Or any less prone to manipulate it. You're naive if you think this has anything to do with protecting you from criminals.
This country's going to the dogs. No one's having sex anymore. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110304...lYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDdXN0ZWVuc3lvdW5n
80% of yound adult Americans have herpes, some other STD, or HIV, which kind of puts a damper on the free love concept.
Hi All, With thousands of government and private security cameras around town, we should expect positive results. Many other countries are using cameras effectively to control crimes.
Many other countries suck. And while America sucks, it doesn't suck as bad as any of those other countries. Do you work in this field (for the government by any chance)? Seems like a "shape our image" campaign.
this is clearly just an excuse to film footage of the elusive magical mormon underwear. i have said before, im in favor of surveillance, it gets me super hard to imagine someone watching me while i pick my nose
