Street lights are about to start recording your every sound and motion
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In most cities, this will just be another waste of budget that ends up getting unmonitored and cast aside when it comes time to renew the contract with the company. Only major cities like Atlanta, NY, etc. could afford it.
Locally, the larger cities around me in my state and TN scrapped their redlight cameras due to budget cuts.
Locally, the larger cities around me in my state and TN scrapped their redlight cameras due to budget cuts.
I’d bank on this.
Still, the panopticon doesn’t need anyone in the tower in order to work. If criminals feel like they are being watched they will behave differently. The smart ones will merely use more sophisticated tactics.
It’s unfortunate that everyone gets put under the microscope because of the tiny minority that causes shit.
So wait.. Cameras on corners and the ability for the US Military to detain anyone without question or reason, just cuz they say so? Uh oh.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYW6mVdslj4]Special Report: Man On The Street - FEMA Camps Activated! - YouTube[/ame]
Nope.
Ya I think you're kind of blowing what I said out of proportion. Nobody has actually addressed my thoughts, I guess everybody is too flabbergasted by them.
Would cameras in streetlights actually affect your life in any way? If so, how? Or are you just whiny because you're pee shy?
Time to start vandalizing street lights kids, stock up on high-powered bb guns before they are deemed a threat to national security.
Determinations to do what? I see this as paranoid speculation. OH SHIT, the government knows I go to Jims Steakout once a week to buy a chicken finger sub. OMG, they saw me go to Home Depot to buy materials to fix my wall.
If we ever got to that extreme point in the future where the government was actually affecting my life based on all this "information" they're collecting, then I'd speak up about losing freedom and if it's bad enough, move abroad.
I'm not understanding why it's womanly to be happy that the government protects me. Of course I can protect myself and have my own guns, but I don't complain that the police CIA do the same. I wouldn't complain if "freedom invasions" like these don't go through either. If anything I'm indifferent to them.
But it's dramatic to say that America is losing it's freedom because of something like this.
I understand abuses of power. But like I said I do think it's speculative (overblown) paranoia to cry that this is driving America to be a police-driven not free state.
Read the first page before posting this, but I'll read the rest.
I'd be "scared" about statements like this if the cops were routinely arresting/detaining/holding citizens like me for months at a time. If the army came to my door and arrested me for terrorism I'd gladly talk to them...it'd be entertaining actually.
You're getting kinda worked up about this. Being kind of dramatic about it actually. And I'm the womanly one?
See - even if one wasn't pee shy, public urination + getting caught on a streetlight = fucked.
So... if you pee on street lights, you should be worried like everyone else.
I'm guessing Goober always plays devil's advocate because it's easier than taking a real stance on something that he might get schooled on. That way, you know, he can always be like "hey bro, I was just playing devil's advocate." So maybe he's not really like a woman.
(just playin devil's advocate)
(just playin devil's advocate)
First they came
"First they came…" is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as follows:
I think my stance is the most real one presented, because it's based on reality and not speculation.
Watching me pass by street lights does not affect my life in any way, unless I plan on being a criminal or terrorist.
:ak:-Rep for ties to Al Qaeda
Not true, there are a million other things to do with all that data. Why do you try so hard to argue that naivety and being normal are the same thing?
I don't consider monitoring at streetlights to be a loss of my privacy. If I'm going to do something private, I'm doing it in the confines of my own home/apartment. I keep asking for realistic examples of this and nobody can provide them.
I've asked how cameras in streetlights actually violates anybody's privacy personally, and not one person has given me an example to work with. Rather than speculate, give me a real example.
Super, it's all about the government limiting our forefather-intended right to take down our own government if they get too out of control. The more things like this that are in place reduces our ability to take control back by force if needed. This and gun legislation.
And if you think our gov will always be perfect and a dictatorship could never form then you don't understand humanity at all.
Now I can't tell if you're trolling or you're completely ignorant. Do you actually think if the army came to your door to arrest you for terrorism that they'd want to hear the crazy shit you say and try to reason? "Hey, I think you have the wrong person. Let's talk this out, this is going to be entertaining!"
FUCK NO
They're going to barge in, take all forms of your dignity, communication and documentation, shoot your yorkie and chihuahua in the head, disrespect your family, and throw you in some fucked up private facility where you won't see light for years.
Wake up from your fantasy state and stop living in denial.