when it shows up, for example in soho. if you have a -- >> soho downtown new york.d that. chicago, as i said. this is not the deep south now. it's black communities all over the country. >> that's right. and soho is a lot of things but it's not really where you would go find a bunch of african-american women if you wanted to have a conversation with them. so it says to me that that -- those billboards appear because they are politicized. what they are trying to do here is a political angle where you see this kind of political questions around contraception, political questions around abortion and now you inject race into it to make it hyperhot and turn it on so that they feel like they can get this space for claiming the democrats are against the groups that they are actually for. >> and i might add for people around the country, soho is not a predominantly black community. may be 5% black. it's playing more politics. and let me put a graphic up so we can straighten out one other misnomer. they try and say that many of these abortion clinics or places you can get ab

they're deploying throughout soho in central london it's called face watch so your image your face will be up an image will be scanned and the police are collecting data on all of these images linking them via the customers so if a woman says that you walked into the bar and took something out of her purse all she has to do is go online and say that you took it whether or not there's any evidence but then you're triggered any time you walk in on this face watch that so they talk to simon gordon of gordon's wine bar in charing cross who put this in his bar and he says my aim is to reduce low level crying rather than just fill up our prisons with offenders to do this i believe we need to create a strong deterrent i genuinely believe the system can reduce low level crimes such as shoplifting and bag theft dramatically it could prevent people getting involved on the lower ladder of crime in the first place facebook makes the stasi this is what they're after on this program you've got people informing in each other on a social networking to keep track of bottles of booze which in the u.k. as

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