Cameras are a fact of modern life, and especially in an age of terrorism, and street crime they have great utility. I know I am against the liberal grain on this one, but I am also surprised how many conservatives agree with liberals on this issue.
They need not be monitored continuously, but tape is available if criminal evidence needs to be collected later. I see no objection to the state using them (in public places, I must emphasize that!) any more than I object to businesses using them to protect against shoplifters or to help discourage employee theft or robbery. Putting cameras in toilets or changing rooms is something else again. They are not public places.
I see the cameras as analogous to voice recordings. No one wants their telephone messages eavesdropped on, but you shouldn't complain if someone records your remarks on a radio talk show.
Current Events » in reply to re: Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
re: Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
The whole thread (42 posts)
- Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
- "Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism.....that is the Left"
- Numbers don't add up...
- And yet unconstitutional surveillance doesn't bother the neo-cons.
- re: Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
- Because American conservatives are so concerned about our right to privacy...
- Should be on Flame (n/t)
- "Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism- in brief summary, that is the Left."
- Oddly, I don't see it that way...
- re: "Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism- in brief summary, that is the Left."
- No big deal, Geoff ambushed me once on the Space board.