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I think all the UK Farkers are too afraid to comment. That or they are waiting hours for their police to show up because they were stabbed or robbed.

Nemo's Brother: I think all the UK Farkers are too afraid to comment. That or they are waiting hours for their police to show up because they were stabbed or robbed.

good lord. reading your post is like reading Orwell

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinised.

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and except in darkness, every movement scrutinised

Good thing we have see-in-the-dark cameras. Today they're mostly used to blow people up, but eventually they'll keep us safe 24x7.

Marcus Aurelius: but eventually they'll keep us safe 24x7.

too much orwell for me in the morning.

And remember, Orwell predicted terminals in every room with camera pickups before the advent of web-cams...

And its not from the daily mail either....maybe they really won't comment.

proof that MPs are not immune to stupidity.

as if their legislatory past didnt clue you in.

It's only fitting that the country which spawned Orwell's 1984 should be the first to fulfill that particularly bleak vision.

And don't forget: no more hoodies or big floppy hats, 'cuz it makes the 4.4 million government-owned surveillence cameras in the UK harder for you to be tracked.

The underlying problem here is that somebody always says "But if it saves one life..." and that's the excuse used to expand these types of programs. Now the freedom-loving protester has to prove that NOT having the camera/warrantless wiretaps/whatever else WON'T cause a single extra person to be harmed.

I don't even know why people in the UK leave their house anymore.

Nemo's Brother: I think all the UK Farkers are too afraid to comment. That or they are waiting hours for their police to show up because they were stabbed or robbed.

On the plus side, though, we can go outside without worrying about getting shot.

Though for the country that brought the world "Homeland Security", "No-Fly Lists" and "The Patriot Act" to be concerned about the UK's treatment of its citizens is kind of a "mote in my eye, beam in yours" thing.

This thread is worthless without my fellow Americans arguing like idiots why surveillance is necessary.

Oh yeah. A camera on every street corner. Right, guys?

Mayhem_2006: On the plus side, though, we can go outside without worrying about getting shot.

As most individuals in the United States can do the same, I do not understand why you consider this to be a "plus".

Mayhem_2006: On the plus side, though, we can go outside without worrying about getting shot.

Is that what the government tells you to convince you that stifling freedoms is good for you? Because I'll let you in on a secret: the vast majority of Americans go outside without worrying about getting shot, too.

Dimensio: Mayhem_2006: On the plus side, though, we can go outside without worrying about getting shot.

As most individuals in the United States can do the same, I do not understand why you consider this to be a "plus".

Well, I figureed if one overblown stereotype about a country was worth commenting on, a response in kind was appropriate.

"Oh noes! UK has camera everywhere! It be like 1984!"
"Oh noes! Americans are all trigger happy gun nuts!"

Sauce for the goose, etc.

You go outside without having to worry about getting shot, as do the vast majority of US citizens. I go outside with having to worry about "big brother surveillance", as do the vast majority of UK citizens.