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You were creeped out yesterday? Take a look at the headline in today's Chicago Sun-Times:

City plans camera surveillance web

Snip:

Chicago will become a world leader in Big Brother technology when the city links 2,250 surveillance cameras to the 911 center to spot "suspicious and unusual" behavior.

"Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes," Mayor Daley said of the system, which is expected to be in use in early 2006. "They're the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot."

With help from a $5.1 million federal Homeland Security grant, Chicago will install 250 cameras at locations at high risk of a terrorist attack, link them and 2,000 existing cameras to the 911 center and expand the network with an unprecedented invitation to the private sector, Daley announced Thursday.

Businesses that pay an undisclosed fee for the privilege can have cameras installed outside their entrances and even inside their stairwells monitored by the 911 center.

"Our members will embrace this," said Jerry Roper, president of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. "It'll help their liability insurance tremendously to have that extra set of eyes with very quick response time."

More here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cameras10.html

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1. Saw that on the news last night. When questions were raised Mayor

Daley said that since the city of Chicago 'owned the streets and the sidewalks' this was a perfectly acceptable plan. Mayor Daley has conveniently forgotten that the city of Chicago consists of the people that they are going to monitor and spy on.

There are just some families that should not be allowed to procreate. The bush* family and the Daley family are right at the top of my list.

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2. Too late for that now...

My hope is that when Fitzgerald finishes with Ryan and the Plame grand jury, he'll turn his attention to the Boy King/DINO.

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4. You and me both.....

As much as John Kass pisses me off, I have to say that he is doing a great job of exposing Daley wrongdoings.

The Tribune also ran the surveillance camera story on the front page. Trying to decide if my act of defiance will be to give them the finger or stick out my tongue at them.

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3. One kick for BB