wayne on June 25, 2008
Even though they don't appear to be cutting down crime, surveillance cameras are still being put up. Officials in cities are getting funding from Federal and State security agencies to put up more cameras, and those officials are taking advantage of the freebie.
‘Cameras Everywhere’ continues to be the best description of the trend in the video surveillance market,” security market analysts J.P. Freeman Co. said in a report in 2006 that estimated that a quarter of major U.S. cities were investing in the technology.
Why do you think the government would finance giving cameras away? Because they want to turn us into a surveillance society. The article continues:
Privacy activists have always resisted the cameras, and they find the enthusiasm to expand the programs especially troubling.
“It really does become the eye of Big Brother,” said James C. Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
“If you could just even keep it focused on the narrow area that the government says it’s going to, it would be a different story, but we know that every time the government opens the door, however slightly, it’s going to keep pushing until it gets that door open all the way.”
I don't mind having cameras watching me, but what I tend to fear is our government. They cannot be trusted. You know they will 'push the door wider and wider' until it cannot be closed, and they have invaded every aspect of our outside lives. The worst part is that you will not even know everything they are doing with that surveillance data. Why would they let you know?
Surveillance video grows despite lack of evidence
