Monday, November 5, 2012

Baltimore announces city-wide surveillance roll out that records passenger conversations on city buses

Doesn't Baltimore have anything better to do than listen to people's conversations? It has another DHS fiasco written all over it. Butt out busybodies.

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Bruce

'(NaturalNews) The surveillance society continues to grow unabated, as the city of Baltimore becomes the latest governmental entity to trample civil rights in the name of "public safety."
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"We want to make sure people feel safe, and this builds up our arsenal of tools to keep our patrons safe," said Ralign Wells, the Maryland Transit Administration chief. "The audio completes the information package for investigators and responders."

At this point, it's appropriate to remind readers that "public safety" is the excuse of choice for authoritarians who no longer feel constrained by the Constitution. But then, why would they, considering they are being enabled by a federal court system that, time and again, upholds such blatant violations as "reasonable?"'

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