Monday 30 August 2010

Camera Shy

I've heard the statistics, you've heard the statistics, but let’s just look at them one more time before I rage against this particular storm.

On average we are filmed between 150-250 times a day on the government’s CCTV cameras. Devices, so we are told, that are put there for our own safety; to apparently protect us from terrorism. Mind you this comes from the same set of bone headed numpties that thought installing listening devices above lampposts would be a god idea to overhear terrorists plotting. I don't know about you but I always thought the lamppost was the traditional hunting ground for the lady of the night.

They say, whenever people protest about their privacy being invaded, that if we've got nothing to hide, then we have nothing to fear. That may be true, but what really steams my pudding is the fact that they are allowed to film my every movement and that of you and everyone we collectively know. But if I dare have the temerity to bring out a camera or video recorder to film MY children at a school play or in the public baths or playing dodge the dirty needles over the park, just because at some point another child may happen to walk into the shot, then I am branded a pervert and potential paedophile.

But it is somehow okay for THEM to film OUR children up to 250 times a day in the name of national security. But how do we know that some of the camera operators working these infernal CCTV devices aren't paedophiles and selling pictures and the locations of OUR CHILDREN to their sick and twisted little deviant buddies? Let’s face it; the government’s track record on catching them out isn't exactly stellar.

Now what I suggest is simple, and I am definitely going to do this: Every time you feel like filming your children, do so. Film them doing whatever activity you wish to record them doing for your own family records and to hell with the nasty, suspicious minded little perverts in Whitehall whose idea of stamping down on child pornography is to make the innocent feel guilty. And if someone official looking should come up to you while you are filming your children and tell you to stop; ask them first if they are accusing you of being a paedophile. When they say no, as they will in that none confrontational in yer face way that bureaucrats have, tell them to sod off or you'll tell a policeman that they were offering your children sweeties.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN---IT'S THE ONLY ANSWER

On a final point, I was going to suggest that you all have private meetings about what to do, but with all the listening devices stuck up lampposts, we'd probably all get busted for terrorism as well as paedophilia.

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