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  • Ya Know, Not THAT Long Ago, Zillions of "Security" Cams = POLICESTATE

    From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.privacy,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Thu Dec 18 21:48:25 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    Everyone is bitching because Brown University didn't
    have MORE security cameras - even though it has a
    LOT of them already.

    It was not ALL that long ago that unblinking 'security'
    cameras spying on you everywhere all the time was a
    clear sign that we'd have gone to a total police/security
    state ... VERY bad.

    I remember the cover of an old 'Anarchy' comix in
    the mid 70s, showing some punk putting a brick
    through a street-corner spy cam.

    I also remember a much more recent bit of culture,
    one of the Capt. America movies - the old NAZI
    villain explaining how his cadre had sown chaos
    so people would WILLINGLY give up their freedoms.

    ARE you safer with cameras up yer ass ? Well,
    safer from WHO ? From WHAT ? Total surveillance
    actually translates into total control. How many
    pols/armies/copz/institutions would you REALLY
    trust to to have total control ?

    Ask Ben Franklin about this.

    Ya know, collect a few video clips and certain
    entities can make up most ANY 'narrative' to
    describe the actions that it wishes. You can
    take "Mrs. Brown going to the market to buy
    cat food" to "Mrs. Brown casing the 2nd National
    Bank in prep for a terror attack" using the
    same video snippets.

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