ABC: Americans Want To Be Surveilled

[psybotbob]

What has happened to the country I admired?
Can you not see that these are all little steps to enslave you? You are losing your freedom. And it's all because of fear. Fear of what? Terrorists?
Fear your own government. They are corrupt. They will lead us all to WW3.

[eg420ne]

This isn't Dogpatch - we have a city to run. Every idiot that decides they want to come to New York City to film a music video, Loose Change follow-up, or whatever, in New York is another burden on the backs of the municipalityâ??s citizens, pedestrians, businesses, law enforcement, health care services and especially the taxpayers.

I'd tell them to either get the permit, or get packing!

Oh my bongers

[Breukelen advocaat]

Give me a break.I have done and seen short films being filmed in nyc so many times and it absolutely not a burden on anybody. This just seems like a continuation of Giulliani suppressing artists. If i wanted to do a film about how nyc sucks, they can just not give me a permit and arrest me if i try to film it. This is idiotic and will never pass.

I wasn't going to mention it again, but the surveillance by terrorists is another reason why the permits might be a good idea - to keep track of what is being filmed and by whom.

Again, they're not proposing that tourists, or even professional photographers, be required to get a permit to take snapshots or use a video camera in New York City under most circumstances.

I responded because it was being called a "camera ban" by eg420ne (post #7), which is not what it is. Had this not been said, I probably would not have even bothered to post a reply.

[eg420ne]

LoL...just put it on my tab^^^

[eg420ne]

LoL according to news 4 its a ban.....omg welcome 1984 and youve have a willing servants to support your goal......i guess you dont watch your own news BA

[Anubis10012007]

I wonder who was the only person out of 26 total votes so far to vote yes for surveillance!

Well, when the person learns that he is being watched having sex or jerking off...he may grow some real PSYCHO balls (hehe) and pull a Biff Tannen.

[Breukelen advocaat]

I wonder who was the only person out of 26 total votes so far to vote yes for surveillance!

Well, when the person learns that he is being watched having sex or jerking off...he may grow some real PSYCHO balls (hehe) and pull a Biff Tannen.

I did not vote in this. The wording of pisshead's poll does not contain anything that reflects my opinion, nor are any of the choices written in a way that I would express myself when answering this question. That's par for the course.

The people who are calling it a "camera ban", the ACLU, are liars. It is for "Professional" filming, and there has been a permit system for films for years in NYC. What the city is proposing is just a way to tighten it up to include smaller filmmakers and NOT, as you are being led to believe, to target tourists and shutterbugs.

I don't see what the big deal is, but I'm sure that somebody living in a fortified, heavily-armed, bomb-sheltered fortress somewhere in Arizona, will attempt to tell me.

[pisshead]

did you even bother to read the article? i think you're thinking about something totally different...

more par maybe?