From: Ellen K. 

Guess the subway bombings are still fresh in their minds.

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:56:13 -0500, "Dave Ings"
 wrote in message :

>I was in England last week (Winchester) and noticed this item in the press.
>I also noticed that the bill was (apparently) authored by Britain. I
>couldn't help but draw the correlation between the British authorship of
>this invasive bill, and all the CCTV and speed cameras that have long since
>sprouted like weeds everywhere you look in Britain.
>
>One evening I watched a BBC show which portrayed the extensive use of CCTV
>to catch petty shoplifters fleeing the scene of the crime. I was amazed that
>not once during the hour was there even a single allusion to how creepy this
>massive state intrusion was. It was just good police work.
>
>So much for privacy in the land of Orwell. And according to my colleagues
>there, other than some modest wimpering about the speed cameras, nary a peep
>from the populace.

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