"if you're doing nothing wrong, you should be worried."

Freudian slip FTW. That should read "shoudn't

@#10- baskoner

Jaywalking? Really? Even reckless jaywalking seems not reason enough to "bring on" a surveillance system.

My point here (one that I wish was so common sense that it was hackneyed) is that when we turn over our security to this sort of surveillance we often do so with the argument that "if you're doing nothing wrong, you should be worried." What we fail to grasp is the likely shift of what is considered "right" by the powers that be.

I don't live in Chicago, so beyond poking fun at your comment on reckless jaywalking, I can't really speak to how bad things are there. But I have to believe that there are other more effective solutions that do not set our society up for a huge fall: Neighborhood watches? Neighborhood patrols with Police? Building a greater sense of community?

On a tangential note, is 1984 still taught in school?

Perhaps, just perhaps, the car itself was traveling at the speed limit, but the camera picked up the advancing speed of the man's bum as it approached the windshield--which would necessarily be faster than the car itself.

@ #18

"I fully expect to be asked to strip naked and hop around holding one of my feet in my hand while being pelted with ping pong balls the next time I fly."

You have that dream too?

PaulBalls must be going crazy right now...

Of course, what's truly delicious about this whole thread is that PaulBalls begins his comment by objecting to the term "stroppy". Dictionary.com defines stroppy as "bad-tempered or hostile; quick to take offense."

This describes PaulBall's posts perfectly.

@ #2
Over 700 comments on the first post, they closed comments on it.