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Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
hadenuf
()
Date: November 14, 2011 05:47PM
Dulles Airport- Passengers must submit to full body scan and possible strip search
Sobriety Checkpoints- Without cause, you are stopped and searched
Speed Traps- Black boot police officers hide behind bushes.
Schools- Students must wear ID
School doors are locked
Discussion of intrusive cameras
HOT lanes- Police will use infrared cameras
Fairfax City red light cameras- Your picture is taken and you are charged with a misdemeanor.
Charge of DUI- By pleading the fifth and refusing test, you are charged with a crime.
HOA- Your home is no longer your home.
Perhaps Orwell was correct?
Sobriety Checkpoints- Without cause, you are stopped and searched
Speed Traps- Black boot police officers hide behind bushes.
Schools- Students must wear ID
School doors are locked
Discussion of intrusive cameras
HOT lanes- Police will use infrared cameras
Fairfax City red light cameras- Your picture is taken and you are charged with a misdemeanor.
Charge of DUI- By pleading the fifth and refusing test, you are charged with a crime.
HOA- Your home is no longer your home.
Perhaps Orwell was correct?
Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: November 14, 2011 07:09PM
Orwell - rats eat your face off. Sounds a lot like the excessive fees at Lifetime Fitness.
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Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
Shadow
()
Date: November 14, 2011 08:46PM
hadenuf Wrote:
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> Dulles Airport- Passengers must submit to full
> body scan and possible strip search
Americans VOLUNTEERED for this thanks to 9/11
>
> Sobriety Checkpoints- Without cause, you are
> stopped and searched
These are publicly announced prior, you can avoid them easily, and they don't actually search you unless they see a probable reason.
>
> Speed Traps- Black boot police officers hide
> behind bushes.
>
Hell, they've been doing that since long before you were born. Unless you're ninety or something.
> Schools- Students must wear ID
Had a student ID
> School doors are locked
Doors often were locked, certainly were monitored.
> Discussion of intrusive cameras
Only reason they didn't discuss it then was because they were too expensive.Actually, scratch that, they did discuss it. It was too expensive. Now they can get the public to go into debt over their heads if they say it's for the schools. Doesn't matter what they actually use the $ for.
>
> HOT lanes- Police will use infrared cameras
Cool, more new and ingenuous ways to give cancer to the cops.
>
> Fairfax City red light cameras- Your picture is
> taken and you are charged with a misdemeanor.
Ain't capitalism great? You too can start a company, build some cameras and get the government to force people to pay you! All in the name of SAFETY! Don't like it? Don't drive there. Lack of customers in the area can change a lot.
>
> Charge of DUI- By pleading the fifth and refusing
> test, you are charged with a crime.
Really?
>
> HOA- Your home is no longer your home.
You VOLUNTEERED for that HOA, no one held a gun to your head and made you move there and agree to its tenants.
>
> Perhaps Orwell was correct?
Perhaps you're a bit paranoid.
Of course, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
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> Dulles Airport- Passengers must submit to full
> body scan and possible strip search
Americans VOLUNTEERED for this thanks to 9/11
>
> Sobriety Checkpoints- Without cause, you are
> stopped and searched
These are publicly announced prior, you can avoid them easily, and they don't actually search you unless they see a probable reason.
>
> Speed Traps- Black boot police officers hide
> behind bushes.
>
Hell, they've been doing that since long before you were born. Unless you're ninety or something.
> Schools- Students must wear ID
Had a student ID
> School doors are locked
Doors often were locked, certainly were monitored.
> Discussion of intrusive cameras
Only reason they didn't discuss it then was because they were too expensive.Actually, scratch that, they did discuss it. It was too expensive. Now they can get the public to go into debt over their heads if they say it's for the schools. Doesn't matter what they actually use the $ for.
>
> HOT lanes- Police will use infrared cameras
Cool, more new and ingenuous ways to give cancer to the cops.
>
> Fairfax City red light cameras- Your picture is
> taken and you are charged with a misdemeanor.
Ain't capitalism great? You too can start a company, build some cameras and get the government to force people to pay you! All in the name of SAFETY! Don't like it? Don't drive there. Lack of customers in the area can change a lot.
>
> Charge of DUI- By pleading the fifth and refusing
> test, you are charged with a crime.
Really?
>
> HOA- Your home is no longer your home.
You VOLUNTEERED for that HOA, no one held a gun to your head and made you move there and agree to its tenants.
>
> Perhaps Orwell was correct?
Perhaps you're a bit paranoid.
Of course, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
wrong wrong wrong
()
Date: November 14, 2011 08:57PM
hadenuf Wrote:
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> Dulles Airport- Passengers must submit to full
> body scan and possible strip search
>
> Sobriety Checkpoints- Without cause, you are
> stopped and searched
>
> Speed Traps- Black boot police officers hide
> behind bushes.
>
> Schools- Students must wear ID
> School doors are locked
> Discussion of intrusive cameras
>
> HOT lanes- Police will use infrared cameras
>
> Fairfax City red light cameras- Your picture is
> taken and you are charged with a misdemeanor.
>
> Charge of DUI- By pleading the fifth and refusing
> test, you are charged with a crime.
>
> HOA- Your home is no longer your home.
>
> Perhaps Orwell was correct?
Lets see where to start.
Airport: Dont fly is you dont like it. I would rather be alive and deal with an inconvenience then be turned into a bomb.
Checkpoints: No just no. Your stopped maybe asked for ID and move on. If your not drunk you arent searched.
Speed Traps/HOA/DUI: This the the case everywhere. Not just here.
Hot Lanes: Theres no point to having them with no enforcement of cheaters.
Red Light Cameras: You couldnt possibly be more wrong. Your license plate has a picture taken of it. You arent charged with a misdemeanor. You get a fine thats it. You dont even get points on your license.
Seems you are someone trying to hide a lot of illegal things if all this bothers you. Not a single thing approaches 1984
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> Dulles Airport- Passengers must submit to full
> body scan and possible strip search
>
> Sobriety Checkpoints- Without cause, you are
> stopped and searched
>
> Speed Traps- Black boot police officers hide
> behind bushes.
>
> Schools- Students must wear ID
> School doors are locked
> Discussion of intrusive cameras
>
> HOT lanes- Police will use infrared cameras
>
> Fairfax City red light cameras- Your picture is
> taken and you are charged with a misdemeanor.
>
> Charge of DUI- By pleading the fifth and refusing
> test, you are charged with a crime.
>
> HOA- Your home is no longer your home.
>
> Perhaps Orwell was correct?
Lets see where to start.
Airport: Dont fly is you dont like it. I would rather be alive and deal with an inconvenience then be turned into a bomb.
Checkpoints: No just no. Your stopped maybe asked for ID and move on. If your not drunk you arent searched.
Speed Traps/HOA/DUI: This the the case everywhere. Not just here.
Hot Lanes: Theres no point to having them with no enforcement of cheaters.
Red Light Cameras: You couldnt possibly be more wrong. Your license plate has a picture taken of it. You arent charged with a misdemeanor. You get a fine thats it. You dont even get points on your license.
Seems you are someone trying to hide a lot of illegal things if all this bothers you. Not a single thing approaches 1984
Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
its for your own good
()
Date: November 14, 2011 10:10PM
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Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
1948
()
Date: November 14, 2011 10:18PM
"Not a single thing approaches 1984"
There was one thing that bothered me.The website created by the White House to report persons/websites critical of Obama.
There was one thing that bothered me.The website created by the White House to report persons/websites critical of Obama.
Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
wrong wrong wrong
()
Date: November 14, 2011 10:27PM
1948 Wrote:
>
> There was one thing that bothered me.The website
> created by the White House to report
> persons/websites critical of Obama.
Yea that starts to get into the 1984 area. That is something to actually be bothered by, not the stuff the op had listed.
>
> There was one thing that bothered me.The website
> created by the White House to report
> persons/websites critical of Obama.
Yea that starts to get into the 1984 area. That is something to actually be bothered by, not the stuff the op had listed.
Re: Fairfax v 1984
Posted by:
Shit!
()
Date: November 15, 2011 03:07PM
I thought this thread would reminisce on the beauty of this area circa 1984...not the book.
But yea, you could draw a few parallels, and even more if you stretch. It's not just Nova though, it's the whole fucking country.
DHS is "Big Brother". They've bought time on whatever hotel network, so now, when you visit certain hotels, you'll receive "See something, Say something" commercials along with that hotel's regular internal programming. Hilton maybe?
A website to report people critical of "Our Leader"? Seriously?
Just watch the shit they'll come out with over the next few years. Things will start to seem more and more like 1984. Guaranteed.
As a country, we've hit the point where our "Progress" is only setting us back. All this technology, all this access, all this global knowledge; it's only breeding greed, hate and fear. It's only a matter of time until this empire falls as well.
But yea, you could draw a few parallels, and even more if you stretch. It's not just Nova though, it's the whole fucking country.
DHS is "Big Brother". They've bought time on whatever hotel network, so now, when you visit certain hotels, you'll receive "See something, Say something" commercials along with that hotel's regular internal programming. Hilton maybe?
A website to report people critical of "Our Leader"? Seriously?
Just watch the shit they'll come out with over the next few years. Things will start to seem more and more like 1984. Guaranteed.
As a country, we've hit the point where our "Progress" is only setting us back. All this technology, all this access, all this global knowledge; it's only breeding greed, hate and fear. It's only a matter of time until this empire falls as well.