Archive for August, 2009

If you were to give…

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

If you were to give people the power to fly helicopters over your home at 04:00 am, to discharge firearms in your direction, to handcuff you, to electrocute you, to arrest and detain you, to “kettle” you, to exceed vehicle speed limits, to wrap duct tape around your wrists and ankles, to walk into your home or business and  ransack it, removing anything they wish, to surveil your data without your consent or knowledge, to take your children away from you should you fall foul of the latest theories regarding parenting, and so on and so forth, then just how trustworthy and accountable would you expect such people to be?

How trustworthy and accountable indeed

A single example less than compelling? Try some of these:

http://delicious.com/rlancefield/police

What are you doing?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Twitter is like, totally down.