No Stopping Surveillance

13 Jun 2008

I've said it before and I'll say it again; the number of security cameras keeping us 'secure' is constantly increasing - but is it making any difference or is it just inflating our paranoia?

Which reminds me, interesting 6 minute documentary about common misconceptions of UK rules on photography/filming in public places; "You Can't Picture This". I was pretty impressed at the cameraman not backing down to the dickhead cops in this one - I wouldn't have known my rights enough to have stood my ground like that. Fuckin Orwellian wankers.

And here's some more food for thought;

The 9/11 terrorists didn't photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn't photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn't photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren't being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn't known for its photography. Even those manufactured terrorist plots that the US government likes to talk about -- the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 -- no photography.

Full article here.
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