I hear you, but I don’t think even Jeremy Bentham himself was evil. I’m not sure surveillance is inherently evil either. Just that it may not always be as good of a deal for society as it seems.

But the material reality is still that the mechanism of action of a surveillance camera is to induce self policing. Without it it becomes worthless whether your intentions for putting it up are good or not.

Or maybe they were shopping for force field projectors and ordered cameras by mistake.