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Ever watch COPS ? I never really had a problem with them videotaping traffic stops and other actions on the street, you are in public, get it through your head. Why do you think bathrooms are designed so people can't see you ?
Now when they take a video camera INSIDE someone's house during a raid, I DO hve a problem with that. Doesn't matter what it's for, that is their home. The line has to be drawn somewhere.
Now let's say you have to make a large cash transaction. Let me give you an example in the news many yers ago. Someone had to go out of town to buy some feed or something. They took the money for a few reasons. For one alot of people have problems with out of state checks, and as discussed in another thread even cashier's checks and money orders can be forged. It is only more recently that the average Joe can do it. With laser printers and who knows what else, for a couple of grand you can forge almost anything. I know someone who shall remain anmeless who did a bit of hanky panky with a document which was accepted by the government, thinking that they had printed it HA HA. The technology is good enough now that measures had to be taken to prevent people from counterfeiting. In every scanner, in the software is a detection module which detects US currency from being scanned beyond a certain resolution. At lower resolutions the copy will not be good enough, at a sufficiently high resolution it yields a blank screen. Try it sometime. My laser printer is easily good enough to print money, but how do I get the master image ? And those who know how to tell fakes can be fooled. For example the paper is a dead givaway, but what is stopping anyone from bleaching a bunch of ones and printing twenties on the paper ? The lack of an image. If you want to counterfeit you have to do it the old fashioned way, with a lithograph.
There is a sucker born every minute, thus there is a scam born every minute. Anything that is Man made can be Man broken. Now let's take security in other forms. Cameras are all over the place. You are in the bank withdrawing say twenty grand in cash. I don't care if you need it to buy a classic car, a boat, or even for a drug deal. You have all that cash on you, do the cameras bother you now ? Even if you have a gun and shoot someone who tries to rob you, wouldn't it be nice to have evidence that they were trying to rob you ?
Armed robbers are another story. The group will have associates to facilitate their getaway. These people will not be known associates, and the pool of people willing grows every year. It is not practical to walk - say into a mall - wearing a mask. That in and of itself draws much suspicion. So you walk in there like Joe sixpack looking to buy a new idiot box of whatever type, or some lead poisoned Chinese toys. All the sudden you start the show. You get all the untracable cash from the other patrons as well as what's in the cash register, and you could go ahead and grab a few other goodies along the way. Your unknown cohorts make it look like an accident that they facilitated your getaway and could get off scot free. Without cameras how do they know who you are ? Fourteen different descriptions from ten people ? Sure.
How about the thread "Luckiest people" ? The guy who shot through the busy intersection against a red light. Should people just be able to do that ? I almost wish that guy would've gotten Tboned. Now he'll just do it again, and next time he might not be so lucky. Let me rephrae that, OTHER PEOPLE might not be so lucky.
I am the staunchest supporter of castle doctrine and the idea that your home is your castle, inviolable. But when you step out into public, you are in public. Most people are under a camera's eye at work, only to find out after they've done something wrong. So in this situation, would it not be better to have the security office under surveillance so that the one who released the video in question could be canned or possibly prosecuted ? Riddle me that.
The fact is there are alot of people who think that others should be watched, but not be watched themselves. Many want public servants, particularly, to be watched at all times. Do you disagree ? Do you think the Watergate tapes should never have been recorded ? What's more, recording everything that goes on in the highest official office in the country, is that the act of a dishonest person ? To put himself under surveillance ? Many questions, many.
What about the people who caught their babysitter abusing their kid on a hidden camera in their own home ? They almost got prosecuted ! What a fucking crock. What about when you send your bambinos to daycare ? I for one would like to see ten thousand cameras in places like that. Or would you rather have them do whatever they want to your kids ?
The answers roll off easily when the questions are not carefully cosidered. OK to tap the Whitehouse but not your livingroom, OK to tap the cop, but not the fireman. OK to watch the security guy, but not those he is hired to watch. I don't get it.
Does it matter if people see you in public, or is it the camera's fault ? Just like guns kill people, blame the device not the person. What if that mall was very crowded. Many people would have had a very good look at this broad's face and would be able to recognize her in the future. Then someone like me could ask her if she's been rebaptised lately, and face a lawsuit for harrassment.
So many issues, signs of the times, are signs of devolution. And we poke fun at it. We are just terrible.
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