Is surveillance the problem or the solution? Neither.

Here ‘s my problem with surveillance: its the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Because I really do not have any problems, caeteris paribus, to government surveillance. Sorry, but I don’t. Fears of government surveillance are rooted in the anti-federalist fear that federalism is a way to sneak King George back into power. I don’t buy it. What I do buy are doubts that surveillance is the solution to crime. Crime is a response to unfreedom. And whether its blue, black, or white collar crime, the solution is not surveillance, but freedom. Here, however, government is not the problem but is the solution to the problem, not with cameras, but with aggregate, public supply of the means to expand freedom, from which all of us, in aggregate, benefit. Cameras, by contrast, merely document the problem.
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