Sign of the Times
This, or something like it, seems to be the most popular new sign in London:
I don’t know if it is clear from this picture, but I counted 7 cameras on this building in about a 50 40 yard stretch (just above the first floor windows, click to enlarge):
Ken:
Awesome. Please keep documenting this. Also, if you see any of those awesome anti-terrorism please-turn-in-your-neighbor signs, please blog those.
Have fun.
July 1, 2009, 8:58 amNate:
Welcome to the Ring of Steel. Don’t you feel safer?
July 1, 2009, 9:03 amsmurfy:
Watch out, you may or may not be allowed to photograph that site.
July 1, 2009, 9:43 amElliot:
Ken,
The signs in “Brazil” said
-Don’t suspect a friend. Report him!-
But who is watching the people who are watching the people who are …
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July 1, 2009, 10:57 amAndrew:
I’d be careful about taking pictures…
July 1, 2009, 11:21 amMichael:
England is a country that believes in unarmed law enforcement. I’d choose to hide behind a monitor too.
July 1, 2009, 2:32 pmAndrew:
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face … was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime …”
– George Orwell in “1984″
July 1, 2009, 2:45 pmRichard:
Welcome to England.It has been said that what America does today, England will do tomorrow. Not so. Take a good hard look at us Coyote, this is what you will be having tomorrow. Cameras everywhere, speed cameras for revenue, not safety. And do not photograph a policeman under any circumstances. Andrew has it spot on!
July 2, 2009, 4:09 am