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Surveillance Nation
I was at a Sam's Club last weekend and realize how seldom I look up at the sky. As I was walking through the parking lot to leave I thought of the woman who, a couple of months ago, was caught on a video camera in a Kohls parking lot punching her child. I decided to look up. Yup, there it was. A nice video camera pointed at the parking lot.
Did it give me a warm feeling to know someone in the store was watching my car to make sure no one broke into it while I was shopping? Not really. I have since started looking up a lot more often and have seen lots of those cameras around. It is chilling to see how many there are and to think about how many there will be soon. As the price of electronics drops, soon it won't just be large retail chains that can afford these systems. Imagine your neighborhood homeowners association wants to put in video cameras to help reduce crime. Imagine video cameras being reduced to the size of a dime or smaller. There will soon be a day when you can't go anywhere outside your home without being watched. When that day comes will we just accept that we have no privacy outside our homes?
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IS THAT IT ???!!!
Do you even know what 'it' is?
When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free
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