April 04, 2005

Quote of the Day

Pith in the Wind relays the quote of the day for us: "I wish we could create that image. I would love that."

What is that in relation to? Read on:

Public officials in Bellwood, IL, a village of 21,000 residents covering 3.5 square miles in Greater Chicago, have decided to join the growing list of cities using surveillance cameras to deter crime. Only Bellwood is taking their initiatives one step further. As reported in the Chicago Tribune, within two years, officials plan for Bellwood to be the first town in Illinois (and quite possibly the first in the entire country) "to have every public thoroughfare, sidewalk and alley under the watchful digitized eye of the Bellwood Police Department...[In response to criticism from the ACLU,] Bellwood's mayor said he welcomed the suggestion that his town might be considered something akin to a Big Brother-land. 'I wish we could create that image. I would love that,' Mayor Frank Pasquale said with a chuckle.

Read the entire article.

I've been doing a lot of Big Brother blogging lately, so go to the Big Brother category archive for background on Nashville's Big Brother situation.

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