Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Surveillance State (In the U.K.)
July 30, 2011 A.D.
There is really something horribly wrong with any individual who thinks it is a good idea to record and monitor the "vehicular" (cops love to use that term and put the accent on "hick") comings and goings of every law abiding citizen around them. A town in England has set up cameras to record the license plate of every car that passes in and out of their town. Anna Edwards of the Daily Mail online ( out of the U.K.) has the story here.
I'd like to chalk it up to apparent insanity. Or some deviant interest in others (peeping-Toms), but there is something truly depraved and evil working in the mind of a person who cannot live with the fact that everyone around them should go about their day without being monitored by "officials".
Local businessmen and women lobbied for the cameras, but they don't run them. The government does. And the government collects the data, not the businesses. This is the difference between individuals being responsible for their daily lives and the state being responsible (which translates into everyone being irresponsible).
Naturally, the tragedy in this story is not the theft of goods or assaults that rarely happen in the little community (which appears to have fallen victim of inter-breeding), but the behavior of government officials who, given the power they wield, use it to destroy liberty.
But seriously folks, if you cannot figure out how to run a small business safely in a peaceful town with a low crime rate while not burdening those around you with your depraved need to control everyone around you, you really are too stupid to run your own business and need to go find a new line of work that doesn't take too much thinking.
Like government work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020167/Big-Brother-watching-Every-car-Royston-tracked-police.html