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| Sandie Seward |
Time to Call a Halt to CCTV?This is an article that I have written and published on my Newsvine Column. Hope you enjoy it. Feedback and comments would be welcomed. Thanks.Why have the British people let it get to this state of affairs? Why are International websites highlighting the fact that Britain now has more CCTV cameras per ratio than any other country in the Western World? Why do we, the British Public put up with it? CCTV all started, innocently enough, back in the seventies when a few larger supermarkets installed cameras to watch for Shoplifters. In those far-off days of grainy, black and white images, it was considered fun to look at a screen and to realise that you could see yourself on it. We used to laugh, make funny faces, and wave at ourselves, exciedly watching our images returning the gestures. It all seemed innocent enough back then. In the days before a growing paranoia set in, and suspision and mistrust spread down from our Leaders, into the domain of the ordinary man and woman on the street. Speed cameras were unheard of, and there wasn't the obsession with speeding that now seems to dominate our driving habits. Even when the first so-called "safety cameras" appeared on our motorways, we believed that they had been installed, at great expense, to protect us and weed out the bad drivers. For a while, it seemed to work. Then, in 1975 came the reflective numberplates, white at the front, and yellow at the rear. We were told that these would make night driving safer, as they would show up easier in a following cars headlights. Again, we believed them. Even drivers with vehicles who were excempt (pre '75) from them, rushed to buy brand new plates and discard the old non-reflective type. Of course, this had very little to do with safety, it was all about being seen, yes, but not so much by our fellow motorists, as by the first and second generations of cameras and their hidden operatives. Quite simply, we were conned. Conned into believiing that what was happening was "for our own good", conned into a false sense of security. To this very day, we are still being conned, but, at last, people have started to question the real reasons behind all this unhealthy interest in our driving habits, and our personal lives. Now, at last, the majority of the British people have realised that all this surrvellence is not for our benefit after all, but for the Authorties Benefit, better to keep tabs on us, where we go, who we see and mix with, our financial status, and our whole lifestyles. Time to call a halt to it, I feel, don't you? |
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| browneyes |
yes Sandie im with you,today i went for my Diabetic eye check,its done in a van thing in the car park of our local hospital,its run by The Paula Carr Trust they had a box of coin things,the one that can be used instead of putting £1.in trollys,they were £1.50p each,so i thought i would get one while waiting for the drops that they had put in my eyes to take effect,i put my money in the box and took 1 but had a sudden thought....were there C C T cameras in the van??????? so i held up the coin showd it all round the van and put it in my bag.................would you say im a bit aware that BIG BROTHER could be anywhere now? | ||
| Sandie Seward |
Those tokens are really useful, aren't they? I have two on my bunch of keys, and always prefer to use one instead of a pound coin.
Cameras are everywhere now, Browneyes. It's becoming second nature for me to check if I'm being filmed, wherever I go. We really should not have to live like this. 
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| Ken R |
I wouldn't worry too much about the cameras you can see Sandie, it's the ones you don't see that belong to the REAL watchers ! 
And believe me when I say.......there are a LOT more of them around than anybody would care to guess at ! Oh, and the last cameras i mentioned.....they aren't all British either, you wouldn't believe who has cameras watching you these days 
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| Sandie Seward |
Ken wrote: "Oh, and the last cameras i mentioned.....they aren't all British either, you wouldn't believe who has cameras watching you these days "
Oh, I would believe, Ken. I know that we are being watched 24/7 not only by CCTV but sattilite cameras from space as well. And still they tout the official line that "there's no such thing as UFO's. About time our governments came clean over these issues, don't you think? |
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| Ken R |
They will never come clean about it Sandie, too much to lose and too many irate citizens to try and pacify if they did ! | ||
| Louise_Vale |
Hi Ken,
I haven't posted on here for a while and it's to do it again. Reguarding UFO's hopefully the ball has started rolling to end the goverments secrecy over that issue. I refer to the big meeting that was held at: The National Press Club in Washington DC on 12th November 2007. http://www.freedomofinfo.org/ Also taking part in the meeting was Nick Pope, the man i sometimes talk to by Email. He served 21 years in the british government with the MOD and for several of those years he was head of the British governments UFO project. I include Nick's statement and two others who witnessed multiple UFO's in Rendalsham Forest: http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_press_07/pope_statement.pdf http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_press_07/penniston_statement.pdf http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_press_07/halt_statement.pdf As i say i haven't talked to you for some time Ken. I hope that everything is OK with you and life is treating you kind. |
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| Ken R |
Thanks for the links Louise, I will check them out when I get a minute, it's always nice to to be able to compare stories about this sort of thing, just to see how the official versions compare to others that are around !
Nice to see you on here again, it's been a little while now, hope you are keeping well also. regards Ken |
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| Louise_Vale |
Thanks Ken, all the best to you  .
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| browneyes |
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| JoJo |
I had one of those tokens OH left it in the trolley
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| browneyes |
yes well that sounds about right,my O H forgot where he had left the car the other day,i had been waiting for 20mins befor he turnd up,i realy will have to keep him with me from now on  im glad iv got a key 
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| Sandie Seward |
I have never forgotten where I've left a car, but, I have "lost" one.
Many years ago I had to go to Birmingham for a friends wedding, and arriving early I parked up in a huge multi-story car park. Had a wander around the "Bullring" centre, and then, when I tried to find my car again, I couldn't. There were a few of those "concrete monstrosities" around, and they all looked alike. Even the ticket I had just gave me the parking bay number and floor level. It did not state exactly what car park is was parked in. Time was getting on, and after half an hours frantically searching for my car, I'd had enough, and called the police. They found it for me, and I have never felt such a doddery old biddy in my life before. (The trouble is, I wasn't even doddery, I was only in my thirties). 
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| browneyes |
well now my children are in their 40 they do such silly things im begining to realize you dont have to be older to do silly things.......its just that you do them more often
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