Cause for Concern

By the way, I know I haven't mentioned anything about the London attacks, but the way I see it is that there is a plethora of information being generated as I write this by people much closer to the situation than I. My well wishes go out to all.

Another very interesting article was brought to my attention pretty recently. The concept of video surveillance is not new, and has been going on for quite some time in other countries and our own. The reason I find this article so interesting is one specific statement that made my heart jump and race, and my eyes screech to halt and re-read it at least a few times just to make sure I had read and interpreted it as clearly as possible.

The price of keeping the community safe far outweighs civil liberty issues.

--Monique Bond
spokeswoman for the Chicago Office of Emergency Management

I'm all for safety. But something about that statement in and of itself really made me uneasy. That type of mindset is teetering on the line of what seems like could be the kind of situation that shouldn't exist in a place founded upon individualism, freedom, and civil liberty.