Reply #5: Agreat lot of places have cameras

[Liberal Classic]

Every automated teller machine has one, and there are closed circuit cameras in nearly every store these days. There are cameras in airports, bus and train terminals, etc. The games may be a good example, even though the system there was established for a limited time due to the venue. I'll have to try to find out what the city of Atlanta did with the system.

To me, it is not that the cameras exist. There are already cameras everywhere. The pictures taken by these cameras have always been available by court order during the investigation of crime. However (and there's always a however with me, it seems) that the cameras would themselves be continuously and perpetually manned to be on the lookout for crime is something new. This difference may seem academic, but to me it is important.

We United Stateians are quite touchy about what we are led to believe are our rights. Or, at least, we used to be.