From: "Rich Gauszka" 

You don't need a boot to kick down the door if they just let you mount a
camera on it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=459
200&in_page_id=1770

Britain has more than 4 million closed-circuit security cameras, more than
any other Western democracy.

Police say the average Briton is on as many as 300 cameras every day,
usually unaware.

The density of surveillance is significantly higher than in any other
Western democracy, says Jen Corlew, spokeswoman for Liberty, a London-based
human rights group.

"We are sleepwalking towards a Big Brother society, not in one fell
swoop but by stages," warns The Spectator, a conservative magazine.

"There is no boot stamping on a face: just an ever more insistent foot
in the door."

But the vast majority of 4,000 people surveyed in 2005 said they believed
that tapping phones, opening mail and following terror suspects were a
price worth paying to stay safe, according to British Social Attitudes
Report - an annual survey released in January.

Some 81 percent thought tapping telephones and opening mail were prices
worth paying. For terrorism suspects, 80 percent supported electronic
tagging.

The British seem to have rallied around the idea that some long-accepted
freedoms may have to be curbed in the face of a common enemy - in much the
way an earlier generation made sacrifices during World War II.

"When it comes to people's safety, I don't think they can go too
far," said Jonathon Walkes, 29, a London lawyer.

"For the most part, we just go about our lives knowing that people are
watching. I'm still rowdy after a night at the pub."

British authorities say people shouldn't worry about the close surveillance
- unless they're doing something wrong.

"We appreciate that the cameras and some of the other measures are
seen as invasive, but only people who really have something to worry about
should be concerned," David Morgan, a Metropolitan Police Chief
Superintendent, said on a tour of the bunker.

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