Into the Lens

Charleston Mayor Danny Jones has a vision. Unfortunately, his vision sounds like something out of THX-1138 or A Scanner Darkly:

'I think in the next four, eight, 20 years, we have to use cameras ... thousands,' Jones said Tuesday. 'We have to be smart.

'My vision is to have cameras all over the city in places where police can monitor the city by watching cameras, the way they do in department stores and casinos.'

Also unfortunately, my tax, er . . . "user fee," dollars will pay for this growing surveillance, in spite of the fact that I have no power to vote Danny out of off. Taxation without representation - didn't we fight a war about that?