And Mohammed Atta on camera checking in at the Boston airport, neatly trimmed hair, trustworthy blue oxford cloth shirt.

The problem is that the laws have taken the impetus away from the police to do anything. Why worry about rushing to the scene of a home invasion that’s on camera if the law requires the victim to vacate the premises.

If the criminal gets stabbed then the resident is at fault so why worry about cameras if you’re the perp.

In light of absurdities such as these.

http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/01/sharia_libel_law_now_applies_i.php

The point I was attempting, rather sloppily, to drive at is…

The differences between “left” and “right” in this world go way way past disagreement and well into the realm of completely different realities. There is no place of common ground from which honest discussion can proceed.

The differences are down almost to the level of alphabet. The words may sound the same but dont even mean the same things when used by either side any more.

This doesn’t not mean I’m implying some sort of moral equivalences bullshit either. The left’s ideals are totally dependent upon the destruction of everything the US has ever stood for. Honest leftists will openly and proudly admit this.

Leftists are every bit as much a blood enemy of the US as are the jihadi filth currently following their convictions into the fight against us. The only difference with leftists is that they are, by their vary nature, too cowardly and passive aggressive oriented to actually man up and put their blood where their mouths are.

Eventually that will change. We’ll see a rebirth of such groups as the Red Brigades, Weathermen Underground, Red Army Faction, etc etc soon enough.

And of course, anyone attempting to stand up against the betrayals, degeneracies, intellectual inbreeding, disinformation, black propagandizing, etc etc of the left is automatically slandered with the fascist label.

To your average leftist, a fascist is anyone that disagrees with them in any way, to any degree on any subject, including breakfast cereal choices.

Racist is used in exactly the same way by those enemy of reality.

The biggest delusion going these days is that there is any real possibility that this rend in our social fabric can ever be peacefully mended.

War is coming. And as usual in such cases, it will be war of the must uncivil sort.

If things were different, if individual rights were still considered a sacred thing by the citizens of this country, I wouldn’t worry. But that is not the case.

The time to pay attention is always. There are always those who are ready to take advantage of power over people. Remember about eternal vigilance? I know you’ve paid attention to what has happened to Britain, with their long history of constitutional freedoms. They’ve accepted ideas that have completely disarmed them. Most of them, from what I’ve read, don’t recognize that they’ve given up their liberty for nothing. They even managed to rationalize the terrorists among them. I should think that Rational Man would know to learn from them before it is too late for us.

The post at that link does a real good job of demonstrating the irreconcilable differences between the two primary mind-sets dominating today’s discussions.

Orwell would recognize the tools of our oppression.

Knowing someone is going to see me getting mugged makes me feel better too. I figure I’ll make UTube at the least and, if the mugging is really spectacular, I might make network news. The mugger will get a big kick out of this too. So, it’s win, win.

Actually, I would rather have security guards wandering around the parking lot instead of sitting in an office some place watching videos and drinking coffee.

Liberal Fascism (thank you Jonah Goldberg) at its most astonishingly contradictory.

(maybe it’s just a function of which stripe of gov’t, Democrat or Republican, is doing the surveilling)

I guess cameras make the bureaucrats feel more in control. (Maybe chips under the skin, scanning the eye’s iris and access to “your” private medical information might make them feel more in control, as well.)

Welcome to the Brave New World.

But if civilized society is crumbling, all the cameras in the world aren’t going to stem the tide. London is, reportedly, the most surveilled city in the world, but there has not been any concomitant decline in violent crime.

In other words, I don’t care what marketing companies are spying on my viewing and buying habits, as long as I can continue to ignore their efforts to attract my attention. And I feel more secure in a parking garage where muggers know they’ll be caught on camera.