Not only would it honor the recent death of Larry Harmon, the last actor to play Bozo the Clown, but make a sorely needed political point too. (In so many ways!)

Clowns of the old-school Bozo variety kind of creep me out, but I'd get out my old eighties greasepaint -- I mean everyday makeup kit -- for a good cause.

I could go with a modern rendering: Krustelah, Bush in full Rodeo Clown / Faux Cowboy mode, Ronald Reagan (but I'd trowel less on the cheeks).

The female clown car is bulging too. Femme toons like Harriet Meiers, MoDo or Nancy Pelosi could be good for a hoot.

But this train left the station long ago...same as machine guns and nuclear weapons, we can't un-invent the blasted things...so we're gonna have to learn to live with the cameras.  I'd feel a little better if I was confident abuses would be punished...but we know the authorities have a piss poor track record in policing themselves.

I feel bad for all of us, but especially the ladies...they're the ones who will be gawked at by men with badges huddled around a monitor.  That's super creepy.  Just wait till the x-ray camera technology improves, like what they're using in some airports..it's gonna get even creepier.

But outside of this purpose, and closely affiliated purposes, it's still kind of creepy.

Call me old fashioned, or a privacy freak, but I'm not crazy about the idea that everywhere I do I'm on video somewhere.  Yes, I know it's a public place, but I don't care.  I at least want restrictions on how such video can be used.

I do see that walking around with a disguise is very suspicious. And if it's around some location where there are VIP's who often have death threats, I can seem some security need to look into that person. But what about when nothing is going on. Will the authorities stop someone and force them to unmask.

Note that by disguise, this can mean a lot of things. One thing these cameras are being used to do is visually see and record your license number as you drive by. There are efforts to tie that tracking with the DMV and have full tracking of your car. But there are now license plate covers that although will allow the license number to be scene straight on by the human eye will not be scene by a camera. Will those cars be stopped by the police.