May 17, 2004

ChoicePoint
posted by Argh 20 years ago
  • There's been an ongoing scandal, involving incriminating videos in Mexico; the city's mayor cried 'foul' from the beginning, talking baout a conspiracy between the presidency and all the way to the USA. It sounded ludicrous, but recent events, involving Cuba and some strange intelligence and financial reports that couldn't have been supplied by no others than US agencies have people considering every option. Sometimes, I've considered all this 'total surveillance' schemes being the first steps of a very long term plan to erradicate crime and such. In a couple generations, people won't object to having their identities and activities wide open to governamental agencies, to being watched all the time, to being subjected to detention, interrogation with not much of an excuse. So, finally, corruption and crime will be easy to spot... it will be there, in plain view, in some bureaucrats' monitor, for all in government to see. Easy to spot, and to act upon. Swift and safe. Pity we might not be here to see that day.
  • Pity anyone thinks it's needed.
  • sure, catch the criminals immediately if not sooner. and that of course guarantees that it will be a perfect system, and no mistakes will ever be made. life imitates hollywood again? i am so sick of living in a nation full of sheep. but it's been said better elsewhere, so i'll just link to my favorite quote here.
  • Pity we might not be here to see that day. Those cameras are there to catch red light runners. Please move along citizen.
  • I tried to read the article with a pinch of salt, but it definitely seems like there is something really fucking weird going on very high in the US government. Nanaba.
  • Pssst. Are they watching?
  • No, of course not. Nor are they plotting to replace you with a quickened clone grown just in case you caught on. Run, run now!