Giving Up Freedom for Security in Florissant

Uncategorized | April 17, 2008

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 minute

This is atrocious. Just hit the preview clip to watch. I will never cease to be amazed at how people are willing to let their lives be surveilled and followed in the name of safety. And this isn’t even about defending against terrorists — steps which may or may not have been needed after 9/11. This is just to protect against vandalism, for Christ’s sake. Have local officials who move forward with things like this ever even heard of 1984?

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.

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