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Blackmarketeer
reply to post by doobydoll
I can think of a lot of other ways to take out a street-level CCTV camera, rather than shooting it - I'm sure most people are reserved about shooting up a camera in a dense city out of concern for their fellow citizen. Maybe the next focus for protests is to take out those cameras. Problem is, the cameras are only a small percentage of the real surveillance taking place.
Threats to the financial sector are a threat to national security. You can't get around that no matter how corrupt a rich guy is. If you are in the CIA, you have to work with what you have. Just because a blood works with a cartel doesn't mean they actually like each other.
Blackmarketeer
reply to post by FreeWillAnomaly
Threats to the financial sector are a threat to national security. You can't get around that no matter how corrupt a rich guy is. If you are in the CIA, you have to work with what you have. Just because a blood works with a cartel doesn't mean they actually like each other.
And what better way to protect the financial sector than by having a number of bankers turn up "suicided." Would you suggest these bankers were a threat to national security? Or did they all suddenly develop pangs of remorse for their lifestyle and decided to pack it in?
Would it not be better, if protecting the financial sector was the real goal, to use a regulating body like the SEC? Not our existing SEC, which has been gutted to the point of being little more than a rubber stamp for the Big Banks to do as they please. What we have here is the wolves of Wall Street watching themselves, they are in charge of the hen house. They bought their way in, and now the CIA and NYPD are just a surveillance tool for them.
"Conservatives" and "liberals" are both working for "plutocrats," be it knowingly or unknowingly. They are all really just "people," though.
Blackmarketeer
The groundwork for this state of affairs goes right back to Ronald Reagan, who laid the foundations for corporatism and "trickle-down" economics. 30 years of this has produced a culture of the extreme wealthy who control virtually everything.
FreeWillAnomaly
Blackmarketeer
reply to post by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
The problem isn't the camera's per se, or who can shoot them out better, but why do we have the big Wall Street banks partnering with the CIA and NYPD to conduct surveillance in the first place?
Do you honestly believe that JP Morgan has any concern over street-level crime? Or are they using this system to maintain surveillance over their own executives - using the system they helped put in place to crack down on whistleblowers, etc.
Threats to the financial sector are a threat to national security. You can't get around that no matter how corrupt a rich guy is. If you are in the CIA, you have to work with what you have. Just because a blood works with a cartel doesn't mean they actually like each other.
teapot
FreeWillAnomaly
Blackmarketeer
reply to post by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
The problem isn't the camera's per se, or who can shoot them out better, but why do we have the big Wall Street banks partnering with the CIA and NYPD to conduct surveillance in the first place?
Do you honestly believe that JP Morgan has any concern over street-level crime? Or are they using this system to maintain surveillance over their own executives - using the system they helped put in place to crack down on whistleblowers, etc.
Threats to the financial sector are a threat to national security. You can't get around that no matter how corrupt a rich guy is. If you are in the CIA, you have to work with what you have. Just because a blood works with a cartel doesn't mean they actually like each other.
So the enemy of my enemy is not my friend; they are working together to control me before they slug it out to decide who's in charge?
Blackmarketeer
reply to post by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
The problem isn't the camera's per se, or who can shoot them out better, but why do we have the big Wall Street banks partnering with the CIA and NYPD to conduct surveillance in the first place?
Do you honestly believe that JP Morgan has any concern over street-level crime? Or are they using this system to maintain surveillance over their own executives - using the system they helped put in place to crack down on whistleblowers, etc.
doobydoll
Tindalos2013
reply to post by doobydoll
?how many gangs are operating in your hometown.
As far as I know? None.
Some of the 'cam shooters' are ordinary people with families who resent our tax money being spent on technology to spy on us but close down libraries and other community services. If our money bought the cams, then they are ours to destroy if we don't want them.
People are sick to the back teeth of not being listened to by authorities so now instead of being vocal or protesting, they are finding other ways to object and get what they want.edit on 16-2-2014 by doobydoll because: (no reason given)
doobydoll
Tindalos2013
reply to post by doobydoll
?how many gangs are operating in your hometown.
As far as I know? None.
Some of the 'cam shooters' are ordinary people with families who resent our tax money being spent on technology to spy on us but close down libraries and other community services. If our money bought the cams, then they are ours to destroy if we don't want them.
People are sick to the back teeth of not being listened to by authorities so now instead of being vocal or protesting, they are finding other ways to object and get what they want.edit on 16-2-2014 by doobydoll because: (no reason given)
Blackmarketeer
reply to post by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
The problem isn't the camera's per se, or who can shoot them out better, but why do we have the big Wall Street banks partnering with the CIA and NYPD to conduct surveillance in the first place?
Do you honestly believe that JP Morgan has any concern over street-level crime? Or are they using this system to maintain surveillance over their own executives - using the system they helped put in place to crack down on whistleblowers, etc.