X-Ray Cameras ‘Plan for Lampposts’
January 29th, 2007How do you top the security cameras to watch the speed cameras story?
Do you really want to know?
Via: Telegraph:
Airport-style x-ray cameras which see through clothes, could be installed on street lampposts in a bid to combat terrorism, it was claimed last night.
The measure was suggested in a memo sent last week to one of Tony Blair’s working groups at the Cabinet Office, the Sun newspaper reported. The move comes amid growing concern about Britain’s “surveillance society”.
The Home Office memo, to the Prime Minister’s working group on security, crime and justice, reportedly said: “Street furniture could routinely house detection systems that would indicate the likely presence of a gun, for example.'”
The Government is increasingly finding new ways of using “street furniture” for security.
“Architectural security improvements have been designed carefully on the basis of specific architectural advice to improve security measures in a widespread way,” the Cabinet Office admitted last week.
Last night both the Cabinet Office and the Home Office refused to comment on the memo.
England is the most police-state intenstive nation on Earth. The US is close behind.
The idea that passive surveillance is actually going to do any good is patently absurd.
It’s time for the people to rise up in REVOLT. But they’re too lazy and apathetic to get off their fat asses and do anything.
This is intolerable. I need to get out of the UK urgently and am working my socks off to finance it. Apart from the miserable, damp climate that has wrecked my respiratory system, I am sick of the sheeple all around who are too absorbed in their debt-slavery, worthless careers, annual holidays, gossip, decadence, etc to care or notice. It’s finding a place that won’t be under the watchful eye of Big Brother that I’m finding difficult.
Damn, and I thought the US was fucked.
I can’t believe you guys (Brits) still live there. It’s time to pack up your bags!
What a idiotic idea. Longterm exposure to X-rays is lethal, even in low dosage. Roentgen himself (Nobel prize for discovery of X-rays in 1901) died of malignant carcinoma attributed to his experiments.
If I remember right, when you get x-rays, they put a lead apron over you and the person taking the picture ducks out behind some sort of barrier with the control on a long cord… the doctor or dentist or whoever is actually in charge apparently leaves the entire building… at least is never present during the process. How can this even be safe? Maybe the increased number of mutations caused will give rise to a new human species who is highly resistant to pollution and warm temperatures… 😉
BTW… as for this being in the UK… not surprising at all. For several years now it almost seems like they have been testbedding all this surveillance stuff out there (for both useful ness and public reaction) before it gets implemented in the US and Canada… I suspect it’s all a big team effort.