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Yes, smile and clap your hands, Mr Citizen; now that you are going to be photographed even when you dutifully go for a VRT test. Time will perhaps tell whether we citizens will be told by the government to install a CCTV camera in our bedroom for Big Brother to watch.
These are always installed with good reason; this time because a few people were caught “abusing the system”. When the ex-Nationalist local council installed a camera at Rotunda Square, Mosta, they also put up a sign, warning us that we are constantly under surveillance to ensure that we respect the environment and do not vandalize the area. If that was the real intention, they should have put that camera behind the church, at Reggie Cilia garden, which vandals have smashed and ruined, even though the garden is across the road from the police station. But these cameras are installed only for one reason: so that that they can financially extort the most from the people’s pockets. This council is no more, and all things told, judging by other local councils with a Labour majority, I expect no better from the newly elected one.
So now next year, when it will be my turn to take my car to a VRT station, I will be photographed like criminal and a public enemy No.1. Stop this madness, Mr Government, before it is too late.
Joseph Muscat
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