I think most of us are pretty well aware of the fact that, slowly but surely, we are losing more and more of our right to privacy. And I’m also pretty sure that we do not need the likes of Mike "The Nanny" Bloomberg to tell us that efforts are now underway that will allow the government to snoop on us more and more. But be that as it may, recently the good mayor of "The Big Apple," took it upon himself to give to those of us who he deems as being the little people, an advanced warning, of sorts. A warning that our right to privacy is very quickly expiring. It came during a recent appearance on the John Gambling radio show when Mike, and quite proudly so, made the declaration that in about five years, "there’ll be cameras every place." The purpose of which, I can only assume, is so that he and his fellow elites will be better able to keep an eye on we, the unwashed masses.
Furthermore, when he was asked about the implications of domestic drones, Mike said "you can’t keep the tides from coming in." He went on to add, "We’re going to have more visibility and less privacy. I just don’t see how you could stop that." Anyone who has been to New York knows that the NYPD already has hundreds of cameras set up at various spots all around the city. However, Mikey went on to say that there’s no reason law enforcement can’t use drones up in the sky for surveillance as well. "It’s scary, but what’s the difference if a drone is up in the air or on a building," he remarked. If find the fact that he can speak of such things in such a matter-of-fact way, more than just a little disconcerting. It tells me that he views improving the government’s ability to snoop on the public as being much more important than the ability of the public to prevent such snooping.
What does the NYC mayor say to people who argue against turning government into "big brother?" Well, as to be expected, and in his typical snarky fashion, he said, "Get used to it." Going on to say "When there’s a murder, a shooting, a robbery of something the first thing the police do is go to every single building in the neighborhood and say let’s see your security camera." And still he went on, "We should have red light cameras everyplace, why not?" And on, "If you break the law, why not do it? And we should not use our police officers for that. Our police officers have too much to do. They put their lives in danger all the time. … It isn’t gonna result in any fewer police officers being employed. It’ll just make them more valuable because they can work on more important stuff, like bringing crime down or preventing crime to begin with."
So, my friends, take a good long, hard look at the monster that we ourselves have created courtesy of our eagerness to continue to elected these believers in the all knowing, all seeing and all powerful government. Zealots whose only interest is in the creating of ever more inventive, and efficient, ways of making them even more capable of controlling us. They profess to be solely interested in improving public safety and our wellbeing, but, really, nothing could be further from the truth. It’s all nothing more than a sick sort or political charade. And be it out of ignorance, gullibility or pure naiveté, we’ve been more than willing to go along with them at the expense of more and more of our own freedom. Their intent is to intrude ever further into the private lives of the American people and it doesn’t take much imagination to realize that their motives are far from being honorable.
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