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We have always know it was coming...and didn't care, as long as we got our toys and free shit. It's when the toys and free shit run out that we will be pissed.
It has happened!
George OHwell....
We haven't yet learned.
Orwell was only partly correct; Huxley nailed most of it:
http://api.ning.com/files/jsF6FTD41kwjTVAgSdsvUcEMzOdVeHSUwi-GB4599KNXjoexMiHGU4xFyem9mNzqSYZRy6BNIsgKCzgf6UDt-xzytYrGuTLJ/XmNt6.jpg
Surveillance will only tighten once 35 MILLION migrants infiltrate western europe and north america.
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2015/09/35-million-migrants-heading-to-eur...
"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
You seen the Northrop Grumman commericals on teevee? Saw one yesterday - WTF...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2FiFD0aXxU
Yeah, virtual war. Kaspersky vs Symantec.
They can just outsource the whole thing to an Indian software house. Lots cheaper that way.
Nice story, shame about the faked photo.
https://daviddunnico.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/f-for-fake/
Gotta feed the mouth breathers on ZH.
Good thing you are here to keep us lesser mortals straight.
Orwell's books used to be in the fiction section, now found in non-fiction.
I'll just leave these here:
http://trollcam.tripod.com/UKVANEYE.GIF
http://i.imgur.com/uGbfI.jpg
http://subjunctive.net/photoblog/2003/watchful-eyes.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/3084176591_1989e1f8dd_b.jpg
http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article232398.ece/BINARY/31131EB...
If you ignore these images, the Ministry of Love has authorized a 5g increase in your chocolate ration.
Yea, because George Orwell was wrong and there are no CC TV cameras everywhere in England.
"Nice story, shame about the faked photo."
22 Portabello Rd
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/22+Portobello+Rd,+London+W11+3DH,+UK/@5...!3m7!1e1!3m5!1suAyz-bbPqvkhD9_3OvTdng!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DuAyz-bbPqvkhD9_3OvTdng%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D63.656464%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x48760ffcc4fa6ae9:0x75cfb7dbaa99f12a!6m1!1e1
That commercial is awesome. I mean, think about how effective those things would be against ISIS! In the desert! Miles away from anything remotely resembling a power grid!
Truly, we are prepared for the current conflict.
*coughcoughRussiacough*
However, they might be very handy in a domestic raid against a well-armed and tech-savvy militia.
One of the most important concepts shared in 1984 is that of crimestop:
crimestop - Orwell's definition: "The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short....protective stupidity."
Then again, there are a lot of important and relevant concepts in 1984:
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
Bullish on black hoodies.
I almost called you rayciss, but then white hoodies...let's just not go there, shall we?
35 million. Where do people get this number from? It is too big to be possible. That is roughly half the size of the largest European state, and larger than most others, including canada.
And what is the time frame? (no, I am not reading the article, I am too lazy to read another one claiming this number).
I am calling bullshit on that.
Go ahead and believe Corp./Gov. estimates. Just like there are only 10-12 million illegal immigrants in this country. Everyone knows the number is closer to 25 million. Probably 30 million now. Statistics allows for a fudge factor when you have some data to show that for every ONE illegal immigrant you know about, you probably let slip in ONE or TWO more.
Not to mention, illegal immigrants have kids. Those kids in my mind are illegal too. They act like their illegal parents. They DO NOT assimulate, THEY DO NOT think as AMERICANS, THEY DO NOT CHANGE TO MATCH OUR CULTURE....THEY BRING AND PERPETUATE THEIR OWN FAILED CULTURE.
LA RAZA......GREATER AFRICA.....SHARIA
But go ahead....call bullshit. And let's revisit your call in 10 years.
They will come from Sub-Saharan Africa. The number is half a billion. The time frame is 35 years.
10 YEARS?
What are you smoking?
Not enough of the good stuff.
Besides...I was being generous. I felt like I was about to be more of asshole than I usually am. Trying to be better. You know.....for the Children.
Colorado yielded the bounty of a record turnover of the normalized wonder plant, cannabis in the 2nd year of retail sales just as one would purchase a six-pack of beer - in the form of a tax-free day last wed ... benefits of a state vote that really counted.
Chocolates & delicious nutritious canna treats ! Colorado, Come for the Mountains & Stay for the High
Children are fine if they belong to other people and are over the age of 10.
Of course, that doesn't include 3rd world children, a lot of whom won't reach the age of 18 and have never had a good meal in their lives.
Sooner or later the West is going to draw the conclusion - it does not matter whether immigrants are legal or otherwise.
It's not a question of citizenship. It's a question of cultural acceptance and communal membership.
Everyone else is a cultural alien (barbarian) or fringe dweller (social outcast).
Treat them as such.
> "Failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
heh...reminds me of a joke I once heard...something about..."my life's so miserable, oftentimes I've wanted to end it, but there always seems to be a new movie or something that I want to see just in the offing..."
The only reason I stick around is to see what happens next...
Pool Shark, you're more right than you know. What is the purpose of the surveillance state? It's easy. It's a distraction for the slightly smarter people. Those who don't care about televised sports, celebrity gossip, or reality TV. I can say this, because in a way, I'm part of this group myself. I work for a company crunching large volumes of captured data, and it's all a game to entertain a certain type of people. The kind of tech geeks who would work for the NSA, or any other security or massive data capturing entity. We've got our own little peep show going on that's better than any reality TV, and it's all wrapped up in logic puzzles and creative number crunching that keeps us entertained.
Obviously, that's not the whole story, but it's a huge part of it that nobody ever seems to feel like talking about.
I should clarify, because I see I already got a down-vote. I would never work for the NSA, and I'm not endorsing this kind of attitude. Specifically, what I do involves tracking detailed sales in bars and restaurants. Lemme tell you, I have graphs of things like how shooters with sexual names, like blow jobs, or sex on a beach, massively outsell their better but more pedestrian counterparts like B-52s or broken down golf carts. It is ostensibly "research" to help restaurant owners, but that doesn't really justify how entertaining it is getting to peek inside some of this data. Like everything else, it's a distraction. That's all "big data" really is, IMHO. Same thing with things like facial recognition algos, and things like that. To a certain type of people, it's a fun game.
I worked for the NSA. The Army sent me to one of their offshore locations. At 18, I had no idea what I was getting into. Now I do.
I could see then that the 4th Amendment was in tatters.
no game.
This is not something where rock beats scissors or paper covers rock or rock wraps itself up in paper and gives itself as a present to scissors. This isn’t anything like that. Or where paper types something on itself and sues scissors.
This isn’t something where you yell “Bingo!” and then it turns out you don’t have bingo after all, and what are the rules again? This isn’t that, my friend.
This isn’t something where you roll the dice and move your battleship around a board and land on a hotel and act like your battleship is having sex with the hotel.
This isn’t tiddlywinks, where you flip your tiddly over another player’s tiddly and an old man winks at you because he thought it was a good move. This isn’t that at all.
This isn’t something where you sink a birdie or hit a badminton birdie or do anything at all with birdies. Look, just forget birdies, O.K.?
Maybe you think this is all one big joke, like the farmer with the beautiful but promiscuous daughter. But what they don’t tell you is the farmer became so depressed that he eventually took his own life.
This is not some brightly colored, sugarcoated piece of candy that you can brush the ants off of and pop in your mouth.
This is not playtime or make-believe. This is real. It’s as real as a beggar squatting by the side of the road, begging, and then you realize, Uh-oh, he’s not begging.
This is as real as a baby deer calling out for his mother. But his mother won’t be coming home anytime soon, because she is drunk in a bar somewhere.
It’s as real as a mummy who still thinks he’s inside a pyramid, but he’s actually in a museum in Ohio.
This is not something where you can dress your kid up like a hobo and send him out trick-or-treating, because, first of all, your kid’s twenty-three, and, secondly, he really is a hobo.
All of this probably sounds oldfashioned and “square” to you. But if loving your wife, your country, your cats, your girlfriend, your girlfriend’s sister, and your girlfriend’s sister’s cat is “square,” then so be it.
You go skipping and prancing through life, skipping through a field of dandelions. But what you don’t see is that on each dandelion is a bee, and on each bee is an ant, and the ant is biting the bee and the bee is biting the flower, and if that shocks you then I’m sorry.
You have never had to struggle to put food on the table, let alone put food on a plate and try to balance it on a spoon until it gets to your mouth.
You will never know what it’s like to work on a farm until your hands are raw, just so people can have fresh marijuana. Or what it’s like to go to a factory and put in eight long hours and then go home and realize that you went to the wrong factory.
I don’t hate you; I pity you. You will never appreciate the magnificent beauty of a double rainbow, or the plainness of a regular rainbow.
You will never grasp the quiet joy of holding your own baby, or the quiet comedy of handing him back to his “father.”
I used to be like you. I would put my napkin in my lap, instead of folding it into a little tent over my plate, like I do now, with a door for the fork to go in.
I would go to parties and laugh—and laugh and laugh—every time somebody said something, in case it was supposed to be funny. I would walk in someplace and slap down a five-dollar bill and say, “Give me all you got,” and not even know what they had there. And whenever I found two of anything I would hold them up to my head like antlers, and then pretend that one “antler” fell off.
I went waltzing along, not caring where I stepped or if the other person even wanted to waltz.
Food seemed to taste better back then. Potatoes were more potatoey, and turnips less turnippy.
But then something happened, something that would make me understand that this is no game. I was walking past a building and I saw a man standing high up on a ledge. “Jump! Jump!” I started yelling. What happened next would haunt me for the rest of my days: the man came down from the building and beat the living daylights out of me. Ever since then, I’ve realized that this is no game.
Maybe one day it will be a game again. Maybe you’ll be able to run up and kick a pumpkin without people asking why you did that and if you’re going to pay for it.
Perhaps one day the Indian will put down his tomahawk and the white man will put down his gun, and the white man will pick up his gun again because, Ha-ha, sucker.
One day we’ll just sit by the fire, chew some tobacky, toast some marshmackies, and maybe strum a tune on the ole guitacky.
And maybe one day we’ll tip our hats to the mockingbird, not out of fear but out of friendliness.
If there’s one single idea I’d like you to take away from this, it is: This is no game. The other thing I’d like you to think about is, could I borrow five hundred dollars?
(Author’s Note: Since finishing this article, I have been informed that this is, in fact, a game. I would like to apologize for everything I said above. But please think about the five hundred dollars.)
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/01/09/060109sh_shouts?printable=tr...
Intellectual masturbation without the Kleenex of Morality to wipe up the mess afterwards.
thanks for the insight Umdesh4, I had pondered if that was indeed the case as you depict it... so thanks for the verification .... yes, with the accelereration of legalized state propaganda on our major corporate network broadcast programming, there must be a shared "certain group" that is testing their "envelope" of how far push various meme's - how about that Ebola scare last fall? barely a pip all summer about it...
i think Jade Helm was associated with some of the major corporate news covered shooting events of the summer.
- Massive Thanks to our Creator that I don't have to watch that - and have ZH for global events & movements ...
Orwell was only partly correct; Huxley nailed most of it:
Along with Orwell and Huxley I would add Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451. A book NOT about a Fascist society which burns books soley because they contained banned knowledge. But because they were not only unauthorized by government but they were UNWANTED by most of the public that had become zombiefied by 24/7 reality TV on wall sized monitors. When everything was on demand, music, tv, information.....and already moderated and packaged by Corp./Gov., then there was no need for books since that was where the UNFIlLTERED truth resided. SEDITIOUS TRUTH. Not to mention....like with Orwell.....the threat of constant war was also a theme of Fahrenheit 451.
Those three were the prophets of today's age.
yer, orwell wrote of fear only, huxley included our sloth andcomfort as instrumental in our own enslavement
it's essential to point to Huxley's later writings in the 1950s as affected by his experimentation with various psychedelic medicine's ...
The "Doors of Perception" and "Island" are very important works and they began to change the way he viewed potential human existence ... Aldous got throat cancer unfortunately, because he would have been able to ride & guide the 1960's psychedelic Explosion as he was friendly with Timothy Leary. Huxley chose to die with the LSD experience to escort him to the next existence ....his wife wrote a book about it
there are alternatives to evil Big Brother dominance
crimestop - Orwell's definition: "The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short....protective stupidity."
thank goodness orwell only wrote fiction
ironically,... could the 'orwellian fiction' had been just that[?] -- a well thought out piece of propaganda for the 'NWO' lulling us into complacency. it seems to me the cassandra's clarion call was nothing moar than a misnomer...
Just keep in mind, as "We the People" go broke, the owners/operators of those camera systems are/will be broke also. They had to beg and steal $$ to put that shit up the first time.
Those systems can easily be destroyed and they won't have the $$ to replace them. ( I think I'll moon the MF'rs on 'em one last time).
And spend the rest of your life wearing a Sexual Offender T-shirt.
They'll stop feeding you long before they stop watching you.
You're not thinking this through. 3d print a model of Kim Kardashian's ass and they will go arrest her.
4th gen asymmetric warfare son. It's all about thinking outside of the box.
Tara, Thanks for the concern, but I have never relied on "them, to be feeding me", and I don't plan on starting it in this lifetime.
Take a few potshots at a red light camera why doncha?
"We the people" are just letting them get away with their little games for now. But the truth is, some day they will be shaking in their loafers in front of the monster that they have created.
Heads on pikes will be the new popular tv show.
~Frank Zappa
quite the insightful observation by Frank - his prominence after very blunt & in my opinion, 100% correct - take on what was happening in the USA, on the William Buckley & CrossFire shows ... he didn't live long after that, really seemed like we lost another one just too early.
younger Zappa puts on a fine live show too - don't miss it if they come to your town
Yeah because it was always about 'Toys and free shit' -- what kind of stupid statement is this?
America has been in near-perpetual war for the vast majority of it's history and this includes against it's own people. From the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 to today where we have the most massive domestic surveillance program the world has ever seen; when has America in it's own history NOT fought against it's own?
America has always been scared shitless and pissed at and exploited something or someone and I would argue that this mentality is an American tradition.
It is now my SCREEN SAVER!
Not Irony,
Prophecy.
Prophecy, indeed.
We've arrived.
Nor prophecy, but blueprint.
I feel the same about the 'Fallout' video games.
Thank God those games gave me some REAL skills, useful...SOON.
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Ministry of Love guarding his legacy.
And we know the Ministry of Truth will keep the record accurate.
Wow, this chocolate bar looks so much bigger!
We know a lot of things are coming but choose to ignore the problems.
How many years did we hear Detroit is bankrupt, NYC, Chicago... are bankrupt, pension funds are bankrupt. The US govt is bankrupt.
We won't care until we have to.
But at least we are safer...HA!
We see you when you're sleeping,
We know when you're awake......
Oh come on you know, what's that favorite liberal term ? Oh I Remember, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.
Everything not prohibited is mandatory.
Now get back to work.
The irony is that Orwell was his pen name - his real name was ... BLAIR!!
any relationship to that soft, warm repository of W's tiny penis?
+1000
20 some years ago Monaco was put under survailannce!
The US just copying it!
Here's a Monaco surveilance story I first heard about via Webster Tarpley. Webster had a slightly more interesting version, but then he got a letter from the widow's lawyer. http://lawandordnance.com/The-Safra-Mystery.html
"There were a number of groups who would have benefited by the death of Edmond Safra. He had recently made headlines for negotiating to sell his Republic National bank for three billion dollars. Men like Safra don't have average enemies. His bank was involved in the contra arms deals. He is also one of Israel's largest contributors. His bank was also involved in the Russian money laundering operation investigation ...
Police discover that Safra's wife Lily will inherit the lions share of his 2.5 billion dollar fortune at the expense of Edmond's brothers. His will was changed just two weeks before his death either taking out the brother's or limiting the amount they would inherit."
everything is ok, we can rely on the ministry of truth, they are looking out for us.
ROFL
Those things will could come down a lot faster than they went up which is probably why they are hiding them in cacti and in other ways now. In AZ a contractor of some kind spilled the beans on them and at first they were denied then later down the road they were admitted and used for an amber alert so..... it turns out they were to save the children after all.
Not there yet.
2015
Every time I watch "Persons of Interest" I wonder how much the series creator knew. Parts of our govt are on our side. But they seem to be out numbered, or simply neglected, maybe hypnotized by the badges held by the Nazis in power.
I vote that every Sept 12 become the international "moon a camera day".
The government is your friend and looking out for you. Yeah, right. And instead of risking a "sexual offender" label for the rest of your life, show some "balls" another way. Snipe the camera to oblivion!!!
That program has a major flaw (unless I missed a monologue in which it got explained away). Every time a "number" comes up and they go out to "save" the person, an average of 15 or so people end up dead in the process. How come those poor bastards numbers never come up? Looks like there are actually 3 categories of "numbers": Relevant, Irrelevant, and Expendable.
Well, ya. On that count we just have to say it's TV, those were just zombies, ect.. Not to mention the good guys get shot, and perform normaly within a few minutes. My pet peeve. TV drama is comical that way.
Orwell predicted nothing, he was a highly-connected individual. His book was nothing but predictive programming in my opinion.
In any case, I find it counter-productive to elevate the guy in any regard whatsoever.
I bet you've read basically nothing by Orwell except "1984," - am I right?
Given my obvious opinions I'm not sure why you even think that's relevant.
Opinions are like haoles, everybody has one.
totally racist.
Nowadays that comes across as...wise.
We're going to elevate you and your cockamamie opinions instead.
For $50 you can be listed in "Who's Who at ZH"
Down votes are not necessarily a bad thing in this place anymore, you should know that by now. If not, good luck with that...
I'm still having a problem with the aka's :o(
Not the only problem you're afflicted with apparently....
I thought you weren't going to mention my urinary tract infection.
- bid "We're going to elevate you and your cockamamie opinions instead" ...
for $50 I'll take Johnny CocknBull :)
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George OrwellNow, that is a good quote.
beltway pundits = vomitorium
I think Kafka was right for wanting his manuscripts destroyed when he died. Perhaps he should have destroyed them himself and not left it up to friends or lovers. It doesn't say much that the people closest to you will betray your honour at your death. In some way these people acted out the despotic apparatus of the characters in The Castle.
There is little more perverse than using people's ideas against them. If you write a critical book the ideas will be studied by think tanks and intelligence groups and used to control you and everyone else. This is one of the great problems of democracy, and actually developed when the French monarchy was failing. The king wanted to keep tabs on what the people were doing so newspapers developed as the original spy network. Now academia has taken its place and the ideas are filtered up through the ranks of military and intelligence groups for purposes of manipulation and control.
Russians like Zamyatin and Krzhizhanovsky seemed to know this well before Orwell or Huxley, and now we are in this position where the Western books against dystopia have been used as means of control. It seems there is no exit, no possible solution, but perhaps the focus on such clear dystopias is part of the problem. Perhaps there is something deeper within that prevents us from ever taking down the already present dystopia. In some way it seems as if dystopian fiction functions as a way of offsetting the enemy, or hedging our current satisfaction and power against the future return of the tyranny being created.
So the answer is NOT to warn about a dystopian future? Will powerful people stop coming up with ways to control us and enslave us because fiction writers aren't giving them ideas? Are we in this state because Huxley and Orwell dreamed it up? "The Lathe of Heaven"?
I don't know the answer.
Fiction writers have certainly came up with better futures than the one we have right now, free of war and poverty. These writings clearly were clearly not "predictive programming" yet they existed side-by-side with Huxley and Orwell. Why did their writings not induce a better world than what we have now?
Personally I don't think you can look at prophets who are later proved to have been right and claim that their prophecies induced the future they warned of.
Apologies if I haven't entirely grasp your point.
Great reflexion G.A.... thanks for the time you put in it.....The ubiquitous paper-mâché tyrannies and dystopias offered by the Spectacle have the effect of lulling us into thinking we're not there yet..until we notice the shackles...
QUESTION EVERYTHING
Heorge Horwell lived at 22 portobello road W11 3DH , UK in 1927 where this picture is taken
check this google street view map and find that the CCTV camera was photoshoped in .
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/22+Portobello+Road,+W11/@51.5112023,-0.1986931,3a,75y,4.07h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1suAyz-bbPqvkhD9_3OvTdng!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x75cfb7dbaa99f12a
Photoshoped was my first guess
- perhaps, however, the photo linked was observing the house from the left, while the posted article photo is a perspective from the right. It is possible that a relative distance illusion is in effect and the camera is in fact there.... quite within a British sense of humor to place an obvious camera there .... nothing like a keen British wit with heaps of chuckles & laughter & appreciation of the English language - and yes that includes Brits of all shades & colors !
I say Photoshop job. Google Earth shows no camera ( July 2015 images, in Street View)
beat me to it!
Fake as fuck. Steve Ullathorne well known for creative modifications of famous dead people homes. Like the one with a guy removing a piano from mozart's house.
http://www.ullapix.com/
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen...........
Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree
Well done boys they say dont let truth get in the way of a good story, I say read between the lines theres a lot of reading.
Orwell was a pussy. Ya I read that book when I was young. In the schools I went too he would have been meat.
Yer a double pussy if you think Orwell was a pussy
Bottem of the pecking order.
Junior anti-sex league getting to you, Andy?
Intent rule. Set down coffee before reloading.
oh oh
Sorry that should be. internet rule.
nanofood
http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/nanotechnology-found-in-popular-foods-despite-repeated-denials-by-regulator-20150916-gjnqgj.html
Morgellons. There out there.
thanks for the link - WHY is Mars confection-maker Candybar Giant adding nano particles to their products ? ? if the nano titanium dioxide was good for humans, wouldn't they pump up new ads touting the "new & improved Mars Bar, Now with Nano-Particle Titanium Dioxide & Silica too! "
There are two relevant questions:
1. Why?
2. Why now?
perhaps the general awareness of potential dangers is such that there is a large enough perception that it is important to know about this, as nano-technology in concept is broadly 25 years now and it is reasonable to expect some real-life product engineering at our retail level experience. The warnings of food experiments such as the apples that won't brown quickly and have very long shelf lives has been years already - but yes what other foods are impacted by nano-scale engineering?
Sad about California's failure to approve GMO labeling. ++ California moving forward classifying RoundUP as Carcinogen.
Tyler....it's a compelling meme...but a bad fake. If you zoom in even just a little, you can see the pixellated distortion.
A little quick research will yield videos of his actual apartment with no CCTV. His actual apartment has shutters, not curtains, and the foliage is different.
You can do better...
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites—in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” --Edmund Burke, 1791
check out all the "trafic" cameras................................http://www.wral.com/traffic/