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Saturday, February 04, 2006

Today's ''Oye''

Yay, a bus cam catches a a school bus driver slap a special needs student. Who can (or will) argue that catching bad cops on tape beating innocent people is not just a wonderful thing? That's good, because with the proliferation of snoop cams, there will soon be several thousand such ''public outrages'' every day to fuel the 9,783 channels requiring 24/7 content. But. This is a nation willing to let O.J. Simpson walk because, ultimately, we believe it's better to let a thousand guilty go free than to jail a single innocent man. That concept is flipping around here. These cams are like the IRS, which agency has the power to get you if they put their mind to it. Extrapolate.

''But Rodge,' what's the solution? ''

I don't know. I think it's too late. The frogs in the pot are wearing party hats.

Rodger the Real King of France 2/04/2006 09:05:00 AM 7 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Once these cameras start popping up, the only solution is to destroy so many of them that it becomes a financial burden to keep fixing them. Paintball and Pellet rifles come to mind when I think of quite ways to destroy something from afar.; 2/4/06, 9:50 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I have lauded such efforts in the past, but as soon as the first guy is sent to jail for paint balling a spycam, the chill will set in I'm afraid. Absent a spontaneous uprising, we're fucked I fear.; 2/4/06, 10:12 AM
Jake said...: Criminals have taken away our freedom in most urban areas especially our right to privacy. We are under surveillance by criminals on the streets and if we look weak enough, chances are we will be attacked.

Cameras on our streets are a good attempt to gain control of those streets so we can get some of our freedoms back from criminals.

Cameras are just a different form of observation that we used to have on our streets. Cops used to walk beats, and they knew everything about everybody in the neighborhood. Before TV, people used to sit on their front porch and watch people go by and they knew everything about everybody in the neighborhood

We have always lived in a surveillance society until TV came, cameras are bringing back what we always had; 2/4/06, 11:23 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Your reasoning will certainly prevail, Jake, but it means we have given up on fixing the cause. which is social miasma. The ramifications are bad bad bad, IMO.; 2/4/06, 12:42 PM
Jake said...: Roger, don't confuse change in technology with loss of freedom. Do we really care where those watching eyes are located?

Those eyes moving from standing on a street corner, or sitting on a front porch to a man watching a crt in a police station does not change our freedoms.; 2/4/06, 1:33 PM
Anonymous said...: One word: FairTax. Like Midol, it makes the IRS all go away.
see www.boortz.com; 2/4/06, 1:51 PM
Anonymous said...: One word: Thermite!

Mix equal portions of Iron Oxide (rust) and Aluminum Oxide
and there you go.

Drill a small hole in the side of a one pound coffee can, at the bottom, insert fuse and fill with mixture.

Place said can on offending "Privacy Invasion Device" and light fuse.

Skedaddle!

No more Device.; 2/4/06, 2:53 PM

Saturday, February 04, 2006

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