U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday ranked Chicago’s Big Brother network of well over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras as one of the nation’s most extensive and integrated — and Mayor Daley wants to make it even bigger.

“Expansion of cameras citywide is one of the highest priorities that will help us here in the city of Chicago,” Daley said with Napolitano at his side.

“Cameras are the key. They are a deterrent. They solve crimes. It deals with terrorism. It deals with gangs, guns and drugs in our society.”

More bullshit... note the feedback from the citizens.

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Don't they realize that Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not a how to manual?

Chicago is said to rival London as to the number of cameras watching a person's every move. The two cities also ban private ownership of firearms, and have very high violent-crime rates. It seems that the trite old warning was true: "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." Who'd have believed that?

The nice thing about living in Chicago is that when you are shot and killed, chances are excellent that the authorities will be able to provide your survivors with a video to memorialize your last few minutes of life. If the trigger puller is a friend of the mayor or a member of an endangered minority species, their features will be cropped out.

A brief history of Chicago:

Chicago was founded in 1833 by the Capone-Daley syndicate after they ran the Potawatomi gang out of town. The city has always been a democratic stronghold, thus it acquired the nickname "the Windy City".

The Chicago sewerage system originally emptied directly into lake Michigan just upstream of the city's drinking water intake plant. This helped to limit the population during the 19th century, but proved disastrous during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 when the fire hoses clogged up with shit.

To remedy this, hydraulic engineers connected the Chicago River to the Illinois River by canal, reversed the flow of the Chicago River and sent all their sewerage down the Mississippi for the rest of America to drink.

Chicago has been a leader and a pioneer in many things that are now quite common in American life: inner-city ghettos, black mayors, municipal corruption, urban crime, drugs, prostitution, slums, communism and lousy baseball teams. If it sucks, it probably originated in Chicago.