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Droning On

There are Big Brotherish initiatives I worry about and some that bother me less, not because I don't resent the government intrusion but because I doubt the competence of the government to successfully act on the information to ever meaningfully infringe on personal liberties.So, for example, I dislike red-light cameras for establishing a for-profit surveillance network along transportation paths that people use every day and think their expansion is worth fighting. By contrast, I considered Governor Perry's border cams a bad joke and assumed nearly from the beginning that they'd be scrapped after a while because they don't really work.The latter category is where I'd put my level of concern over the use of unarmed Predator Drones to monitor the border...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 15, 2010 (boomark / email).