2010 Crackdown
I don't know how many of you have heard that Gamie Graham (Vancouver's chief of police) is now reviving the idea of installing public cameras in the city to monitor the citizens, but I think this is something we need to make our voices heard on.
I suppose it should be seen coming that in the final 3.5 years before the 2010 Olympics, there will be enormous pressure to institute new policies in the name of safety and security, which is the most common justification that states have used throughout much of modern history to take away rights from their citizens.
It seems that we often forget that we are supposed to give rights to government, not the other way around.
What are anyone's thoughts?
said Chief Graham in an interview with the CBC. I am not aware of studies on the issue, but it seems to me that the more the state, whether through laws, police or military, intervenes in the lives of otherwise peaceful people, the stress level of the society increases as a whole."We live in a dangerous world and we're about to host one of the biggest sporting events in the world, and we want to be careful. "
"There are people in the world and there are situations unfolding in different parts of the globe, and there are people who want to do us harm."
I suppose it should be seen coming that in the final 3.5 years before the 2010 Olympics, there will be enormous pressure to institute new policies in the name of safety and security, which is the most common justification that states have used throughout much of modern history to take away rights from their citizens.
It seems that we often forget that we are supposed to give rights to government, not the other way around.
What are anyone's thoughts?
posted by Mike at 9:10 AM
1 Comments:
This is something that was killed earlier, now resurrected by Graham by using the Olympics as the latest reason/excuse. Studies have been done CC cameras, and they have shown the the cameras are not effective.
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