Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, famous for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star Wars trilogy, has had quite enough of the overbearing government surveillance and "for your own safety, whether you want it or not" society taking over Great Britain, especially our old friend England:
"Our trip opened my eyes to how insane the rules are in Britain -- CCTV cameras everywhere, congestion charge -- a ludicrous nanny state. If anything drives me out of the country it will be that"
You know it's getting bad when actors, historically some of the most liberal and socialistic members in a society, start to grumble about how bad things are getting.
The article provides a wonderful example of how even the movie business is being made to look like idiots, all in the name of "safety" of course:
"When Daniel Craig was unveiled as the new James Bond actor in October 2005, he was forced to wear a life jacket as he sped through London on a boat up the River Thames."
Nothing says dashing, debonair spy more than a life vest. Do they make tuxedo jackets in bright orange?
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I don't understand? You post several stories of common people fighting "Authority" with cameras (kid with camera in car/corrupt cop, guy videotaping illegal search) as if they were pioneers and crusaders, then turn around and bash cameras and talk about a police state and how there are far too many cameras. Cameras are the most objective equipment there is, all it does is show the truth. What do you want? A society with complete video evidence, or a society with none at all?
Ah, but there is a big difference, at least in my way of looking at things: A centralized police state tracking all of the moves of its citizens in an organized manner, in an attempt to intrude upon and modify private, legal behavior, versus free and private citizens documenting abuses of power and overreaches of authority. I think that there is a huge difference between the two, especially given all of the examples of official wrongdoing that are simply "lost", or develop "glitches", and the like. "Complete video evidence" is a fantasy term when the government is in charge of overseeing itself, as we keep finding out over and over. Additionally, we as citizens have more rights than the government by design. They work for us, at our pleasure, not the other way around. The police are free to seek other employment if they don't want to be taped, something that private citizens cannot do.
I hope this clears my thinking up a bit. Please comment more in the future, this really stimulated my thinking, for the better, I believe.
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