Town to spy on parks

The Stalinist police state that America has become expands.

The city of Forest Park, Ohio - just outside Cincinnati - is getting a mobile surveillance camera for its police department. The city plans to use it to spy on parks.

Apparently inspired by a spying program pioneered by my former high school, the city also plans to link the camera to a laptop in police cruisers.

The town also plans to use motion sensors to detect if people enter a park after dark.

A police official boasts, "Down the road, the possibilities are limitless." And that's precisely the problem! The uses that are already planned show that America is nearing the bottom of the slippery slope of the surveillance state. And it appears that it's just about to make an ugly crash landing.

All this program will do is drive crime elsewhere. Programs like this have already proven this.

Orwell's '1984' is here. America is no longer fast becoming a police state (to borrow my famous line from the '90s). It now is a police state.

(Source: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080922/NEWS01/809220320/1168/NEWS)