I would like to comment on Reuben's posts on June 19.

I disagree that the government should not spend so much more money to make a surveillance network. Well, I believe otherwise as it helps build up economy due to the enormous spending made and it would be of great help in this status quo where there is a economic crisis. When more are spent on these surveillance, economy improves and it still helps to bring down crime rates which is caused by the economic downturn. There you go, 2 birds are killed with 1 stone.

However, I could not help wonder why are you contradicting yourself as you wrote "Spending more money on unwanted things instead of helping us is wrong." while the same time this "CCTVs can be used for bad, but rarely, and really, what sort of true "bad" can it do? They are not hidden cameras."

One moment you said that it is not bad for us, yet another moment you said that these are unwanted and it would not help us??  If you said it would help us by setting up CCTV surveillance and there is little disadvantage, why not carry it out.

Another thing is that the things that caused flack to the government are quite minor in terms of looking at what the government has done for us. These things happens in every society, while installing CCTV surveillance should not cause another commotion in the government as it brings down crime rates, helping the community. Well, you have my 2 arguments, which I believe are more major than yours, against your reasonably minor arguments.

Hope I do not bring out any rivalry or hate in this post...

Kaiser Tan  (33)