Public_Domain Public_Domain:
Can't help but agree Shep.
We can always champion our humanity. Maybe it's a bit sad that we are so taken back and surprised by people simply wanting to help each other during chaos.
But then, after the chaos, all of us are untrustworthy. Each escalation brings about a greater and greater disconnect. We ink further and further to the point that we really don't see those who we must present ourselves to and prove innocence to. We become a guilty party by mere existence;
We are equal to the terrorists... for our own protection.
But really, and I'm not going to make any suggestions, what's left to take? I'm not interested in CCTV cameras. Already there's apparently massive abuse of some law in Canada that dictates that we're supposed to know who controls whatever camera is recording us. That information is almost never posted. Stores are supposed to have signs that basically work like Terms and Conditions, saying that they have cameras. No one does that. So I have no interest in more unaccounted for Gov Corp cameras littering the streets.
What law would that be on CCTV? I think you listen too closely to your peers who repeat crap often enough to believe it.
There is no law against making video of persons in a public place or a private building. Some places post notices advising you that you are being recorded. People routinely video police on traffic stops or in their businesses/homes. Everytime our guys turn up to a bar fight/disturbance, 10+ iPhones are recording our every move.
I think CCTV on every street corner is preferable to those street corners being armed checkpoints.
I'm already well tired of taking off my shoes at the airport because one crazy fuck had bang in his shoes 7 years ago. Politicians will chunk away at our freedoms and we will line up in meaningless/ineffective security checks in airports that are run by minimum-wage security staff that can barely speak English.
There has to be a better way than what the sales-guys will do to respond to the ever present and growing threat that these fucks pose to our society.