Libby from Newshoggers:

I blogged about this probably three years ago on one of the many blogs I contribute to but it's still a timely issue and Charlie Savage revisits the ever burgeoning trend toward a total surveillance society. Homeland Security has been passing out millions for all these years in grants for every little podunk town in America to install cameras in their public spaces. ...

Putting the obvious privacy concerns aside for a moment, let's consider the priorities here. We can't screen the vast majority of seagoing cargo or the cargo that rides in the bellies of passenger planes, our nuclear facilities are open targets and New Orleans is still unprotected from another major hurricane, all for lack of money but we're funding surveillance cameras for Liberty Kansas? Why? Because in a town of 95 people nobody would notice if a group of strangers started milling around their park?[emph added]

The Bu$h malAdministration understands the real internal threat is not from the ravening hordes of 1.6 billion Muslims, who more and more want nothing whatsoever to do with the country that used to be America. The real danger is Americans getting out in the streets to protest the unconscionable lawlessness of George Bu$h, Dick Cheney, and the Republican Party.