Being watched…
I live In Bellingham Washington. A small, college, bay town. Right on the water. Not a lot goes on in Bellingham. There’s lots of homeless people, mostly harmless. People do a lot of stenciling on buildings–very classy, many of them better than art you’d see in a gallery. In fact, I think a lot of people who own the businesses…would want it to stay. If you appreciate the downtown lifestyle…you’d appreciate the art. Over the last year or so, they installed over 80 cameras around town. Most of them being downtown…on stop lights, etc. The reason being so “instead of having to have police on every corner or downtown…they can just watch, and come when need be.” A couple of things…are cops not paid out the ass? Are they not being paid to work, rather than sit in front of a television…I was under the impression that was something more along the lines of a security gaurd. Now the thing is, when you hear “Cops are watching, for your safety.” it makes you feel good, or, at least it’s intended to make you feel good. Why? Because it’s the first step to something awful. The government thinks that if they say they are cameras for our safety, being watched by your local police department, then why would you care? And why would you? Until the cameras are everywhere…on every street, in every home, in every part of the home. That’s exactly what they will do. All they are doing is breaking you into the bigger picture. Making it slow, and making it sound nice so you won’t care/notice as much when they are everywhere…when it’s not the police that watch you…or if it is, when they can arrest you for anything. Do you want that? Do you want a camera shoved in your face, a cop to come and tell you to move along because your out late at night and it’s making him/her uncomfortable? How about when it’s in your home? Watching you have sex, breaking it up if you aren’t a married straight couple. How about it? The government is trying to become god. We are letting them.
They just did the same thing in Richmond, VA not to mention it was in the small city I grew up in. Which was in California. They are everywhere. We need to do something. This is the first step.
