Grant,
I agree with most of what you say. I'm not advocating gov cameras
"everywhere", but on public property there's generally no
constitutional issue. Gov "malfunctioning" cameras are just proof
that they hate them.
Let me be brief:
Rather than jerking Big Brother's camera away, just point yours
at him.
-Mark
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Hi Mark,
Good points, but gov'ts have a tendency to disallow citizen use
of
cameras, or to suppress the evidence, often for "secrecy" (or
'methods
protection') reasons. For example it is illegal to tape your own
phone
calls in many states.
Also, gov't cameras seem to malfunction when embarrassing/evil
stuff
happens. 911?
I don't trust governments enough to allow them to have cameras
everywhere. Now if we could stream all the camera data to a
secure
place then I might be less concerned. Secure is currently
defined as
outside the country, with a neutral nation that the US government
can't
'roll'. Read china.
It may not be in the constitution one way or another, but I don't
want
to pay for those cameras in any case.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Regards
Grant
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