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Thursday, 30 July 2009

A Modern Pretorian Guard

Here, there, everywhere. Have you noticed the growth in security firms and surveillance companies during this past decennium? They are in stores, in all forms of transportation systems, hotels, airports, in our mobiles, GPS, ATM's, our work places - and what the heck, why don't we even allow them into our private residence areas? They tape us and own the rights to the tapes. To protect us, naturally.

One of these companies, beginning and ending with a letter and a figure interfixed, has grown out of absolutely nothing for the past eight years through acquisitions. I even saw them at the municipality job centre. Three man tall sitting lazily around reading newspapers the entire day - when not doing an hourly round to watch over the job seekers at the computers. Or filling paper into the printers. Three man tall, full time, doing the job of a part time page girl. The paradox is: there are never any incidents to justify their presence (one such could of course be staged to justify the need for them). And I'm sure that they could be called - or rightly so, the police - if needed. Imagine the amount of tax dollars that go into these guards reading newspapers the entire day.

I say, with this constant eye in the sky - why don't we join in the game? Have some fun with this East block method. Let's start watching these guards closely. Just a taste of their own methods. Little Brother style.