Comments on: Security vs. Liberty http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/432 Freelance journalist Gary Marshall on technology, the Internet, music, Macs and more Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Squander Two http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/432/comment-page-1#comment-894 Squander Two Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:52:36 +0000 http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/?p=432#comment-894 The trouble with CCTV is the police's attitude. It can be used preventatively (and, back when it was still a novelty, often was), but it's so much easier to use it as an after-the-fact evidence-gathering-and-suspect-finding tool. Which is no bloody use. The Government could force the police to start monitoring live CCTV and responding in real time, but they won't. The trouble with CCTV is the police’s attitude. It can be used preventatively (and, back when it was still a novelty, often was), but it’s so much easier to use it as an after-the-fact evidence-gathering-and-suspect-finding tool. Which is no bloody use. The Government could force the police to start monitoring live CCTV and responding in real time, but they won’t.

]]> By: Gary http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/432/comment-page-1#comment-891 Gary Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:23:09 +0000 http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/?p=432#comment-891 *reads that news link* *shakes head* *reads that news link*

*shakes head*

]]> By: Tony Kiernan http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/432/comment-page-1#comment-892 Tony Kiernan Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:56:11 +0000 http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/?p=432#comment-892 First hand account: http://www.urban75.org/london/bombs.html Best bit: “I bloody well am getting on the tube on Monday. And yes, I probably will feel scared and I probably will remember the bomb, but as I said to someone yesterday, when we were on the train stuck underground, coughing, 'well, we've now established that we can survive a tube bomb, so sod it, yes, I am going to travel again'. I don't see what else to do really. Today, lots of people on the tube will be worrying about what if and whether they'd cope, and I 'll know I did cope, we all coped, which is kind of empowering really. I'm scared but I'm angry, so I'm using the anger to get through it. We all need to go to work. Life goes on.” First hand account:
http://www.urban75.org/london/bombs.html

Best bit:
“I bloody well am getting on the tube on Monday. And yes, I probably will feel scared and I probably will remember the bomb, but as I said to someone yesterday, when we were on the train stuck underground, coughing, ‘well, we’ve now established that we can survive a tube bomb, so sod it, yes, I am going to travel again’. I don’t see what else to do really. Today, lots of people on the tube will be worrying about what if and whether they’d cope, and I ‘ll know I did cope, we all coped, which is kind of empowering really. I’m scared but I’m angry, so I’m using the anger to get through it. We all need to go to work. Life goes on.”

]]> By: Tony Kiernan http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/432/comment-page-1#comment-893 Tony Kiernan Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:44:15 +0000 http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/?p=432#comment-893 http://mediamatters.org/items/200507070005 http://mediamatters.org/items/200507070005

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