I hate the idea of it.... BUT
I think the big brother thing is inevitable most of us carry mobile phone in a couple of years all our cars will have blackbox technology in them for "insurance" which will monitor the roads we drive on and the speeds we should be going and the speeds we actually do as well as help keep our cars secure and have accurate data in case of a crash.
Most people use their own phones and drive their own cars or company cars that are soley used by them. I know it’s not connected directly to the government NOW but it could be soon. ISP and phone companies have to keep longer records and make them available on request to the government .. It’s only a step away from open access to them..
or am I being paranoid?
Oh, remember that Brazillian Kid they shot dead recently, 9 times in the head in the underground? Wasn't it absofuckinglutely amazing how none of the CCTV cameras (there were over 6 of them I believe I read somewhere) in the area at the time were working, or else had "no film" in them?
I made this exact same point to a friend of mine in a heated discussion not so long back .. I was not passing judgment as to him being a terrorist or associating with known terrorists just the inconsistency of the information that was coming back to public making it look like incompetence and lies.
after the transport bombing and attempts there was cctv footage available from every angle, station, street camera etc tracking the movements of the people responsible on the practice run and the morning of the attacks... then after all that when the security is supposed to have been tighter and people far more vigilant the cctv is out of order or no film...... come on...
or am I being paranoid?
I can only imagine what its like to have to be an armed police man in this situation and knowing someone that does it I know that these guys are not trigger happy morons as they are made out to be by the press and some activist groups, but id rather be told that all the information can not be made transparent due to security then be told a lie that it will be transparent and then be given a feeble excuse.
I understand that the officers that do this part of the job need to be fully backed up for what they do but I also see that when something like this happens and then its fudged by the powers above it dirties the reputation of the people on the ground making them look incompitent.
**Duality** I also have this feeling of showing people how the terrorist were tracked shows the terrorists how to avoid being tracked..... A bit like the Italians going through step by step the methods that they used to track the suspected bomber, that in my opinion was utter stupidity ......
I dunno is it better to accept that someday maybe today we are in a panopticon? that there is a folder on a computer holding the time:date:fequency of my visits to anallesbianvampresseswithstrapons.com that in the same folder there is my phone conversations with 60secondsally on 0898SEXMEUP, atm transactions, creditcard usage and cars whereabouts for the past year and that the government will find that I'm a menace to society and poke me with an umbrella....
Anyway let us see what happens.