Does this mean they will need even more cameras to watch the cameras that are watching the cameras, that are watching the cameras, that are watching th………….?????
Haha! You are right. It is a big joke, but what it points to is a more serious issue. Who is watching the Watchers?
PW
RINF Alternative News | Jun 27, 2007
By Mick Meaney
The surveillance society is not just content to watch all of us, everywhere we go, but is now considering the monitoring of its own cameras, as members of the general public rebel against the dramatic increase of these privacy eroding systems – by destroying one of the most despised surveillance methods in the UK, the speed camera.
Vandals, freedom fighters or patriots, you decide, have been targeting speed cameras near the Scottish border along the A68, the A1 and the A697 in Berwickshire. Seven attacks in three years have officials and Big Brother supporters worried.
Colin McNeil, head of the Lothian & Borders Safety Camera Partnership, the company who manage the cameras said: “Every time it happens it is inconvenient, it is costly and it is a crime. It is obviously something that we are concerned about to such a degree that we are now looking at potential ways of monitoring sites.”
“There are companies there who would provide us with CCTV coverage of the cameras themselves – the cameras looking after the cameras kind of thing.”
The logical step in a democracy would be to remove the cameras instead of spending even more of the taxpayers’ money to replace them, as the message has clearly been sent that this form of surveillance is not acceptable.
However the authorities are continuing to advance the nationwide surveillance of drivers by taking technology to new levels with the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system, which feeds vehicle and driver information into the Police National Computer database, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database and insurance databases.
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Adam // September 18, 2007 at 8:13 am
I sometimes think it’s delusional people that speed up delusional governments. I don’t mind the police state watching my moves on the internet or my emails. I think the right wing goes too far when they create massive tunnels through Operating Systems like Vista and start data mining into your personal computer. That’s when spying goes too far. It’s not hard to keep a balance, sadly it’s when you get Agenda men like Bush and Kerry running that you develop that lack of balance. Thank the bonesmen for alot of troubles in the world.
Adam // September 18, 2007 at 8:30 am
Fundamentalists seem to like to jab at the arteries of things instead of hitting at the heart of the matter, kinda like lobdomized agents(yes I didn’t spell that properly and I still have my 125 IQ points intact amazingly). I find Right Wing Authoritarians to be very dumb in matters, just look at Bush Jr. The only thing good that came from retarded nazism was the Microwave Oven. I’m a moderate centrist, I liked Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan. Though I liked Reagan more but even I didn’t like his War Machine/bowing to companies things. I would consider myself a New Deal, Vain democrat. I’m more your Archie brand of things. I just think Reagan’s name has been smeared by empty headed monkeys that well that use Reagan’s as they go around like chickens with their heads cut off like insane tyrants. Sorry Mister Bush, you’re no Reagan, not even close, even his father was smarter then this monkey. Seasons change, paradigms shift and well, and there you have it. Some are Dictionary lovers, and some just could care less about them. Ciao. To clarify about the Vista thing, that’s a rumour, it may not be true, sorry Microsoft, I apologize.
pjwalker911 // September 18, 2007 at 9:02 am
Your supposedly high IQ level isn’t helping much in the discernment department, or you are on some kind of drug. All these bastards are on the same page, working for the same masters, for the same agenda, ie the New World Order that Bush Sr obsessesses about.