Stalinization of New York expands

This is yet another story of what happens when a city has a string of liberty-smashing right-wing mayors for years.

New York City officials are unleashing a secret surveillance vehicle in a Staten Island neighborhood. The vehicle could be disguised as anything ranging from a personal car to a plumbing company van.

But nobody will know it's a surveillance car until it catches them doing something really horrible like setting off a firecracker or photographing a yellow stop sign.

Yay! A police state!

Honestly, what's the difference between this and North Korea? There is none.

The car costs $55,000 of the taxpayers' money. Funding was secured by Republican city councilor James Oddo. The surveillance vehicle has digital cameras, "neat computer stuff", and even a periscope.

New York must not have a serious violent crime problem if the city can afford to waste thousands on this shit just to catch people doing things that wouldn't even be illegal in most other places.

Does it make the city safer? Of course not. I'd feel much less safe if I knew there was a program like this in my neighborhood. Considering America's recent history of secret surveillance, there may already be.

(Source: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/secret_surveillance_vehicle_hi.html)