Daily Archives: 13 September 2009

Lew Rockwell — What do the Tea Parties stand for?

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I will avoid a crowd estimate but a friend of mine who was there today described it as enormous.

Here’s my take on the tea party movement so far. It’s been a successful coalition of conservatives and libertarians so far united by opposition to Obama and all his works. The sentiment in the nation right now is clearly anti-Obama.

The key point is, what is the tea party movement for? On that, there is no agreement and probably won’t be. If conservatives will repudiate eight years of Bushian big government, the coalition might persist. If not, the libertarians should very quickly go their own way lest they unwittingly lend their support to a restoration. (Read more from lewrockwell.com)

1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’

Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed.

The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals.

In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers.

David Davis MP, the former shadow home secretary, said: “It should provoke a long overdue rethink on where the crime prevention budget is being spent.”

He added: “CCTV leads to massive expense and minimum effectiveness.

“It creates a huge intrusion on privacy, yet provides little or no improvement in security.” (Read more from news.bbc.co.uk)

Government Reaction: Obviously, we need more cameras.

ACLU Lobbyist Larry Frankel Found Dead in Washington

If Larry Frankel, past executive director and longtime lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, were to have played a character in a biblical pageant he would have been the burning bush, Andrew Chirls, his former longtime partner once told him. . . . .

On Friday, Frankel, who took a position last year as state legislative counsel for the ACLU’s Washington office, was found dead in the stream that gives Washington’s Rock Creek Park its name.

Police released little about the circumstances of Frankel’s death and as of yesterday had declined to officially identify the man found floating in water shortly before noon on Friday in the federally administered large park that cuts through Northwest Washington. (Read more from philly.com)

ABCNNBBCBS: You will mourn who we tell you to mourn, and forget who we tell you to forget!