But The Salmon's Good

It's a great place to catch your dinner in Alaska, but don't try it without a license because someone's watching.

80 Eyes on 2,400 People
If terrorists come to tiny Dillingham, Alaska, security cameras will be ready. But privacy concerns have residents up in arms.
By Tomas Alex Tizon, Times Staff Writer
March 28, 2006


DILLINGHAM, Alaska — From Anchorage it takes 90 minutes on a propeller plane to reach this fishing village on the state's southwestern edge, a place where some people still make raincoats out of walrus intestine.

This is the Alaskan bush at its most remote. Here, tundra meets sea, and sea turns to ice for half the year. Scattered, almost hidden, in the terrain are some of the most isolated communities on American soil. People choose to live in outposts like Dillingham (pop. 2,400) for that reason: to be left alone.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-secure28mar28,0,3284078.story?coll=la-home-headlines

I, for one, am begining to loathe cameras. It's becoming a crutch for police departments to use, instead of better policing and crime deterrants.

I could go on and on about the cameras in DC, but I'll spare you all the gory details. Suffice to say that the cameras are not doing the specific jobs they were voted for and bought to do.

Even more interesting in the article, was the unheated restaurant whose temperature was at 0 degrees. (Eat them eggs quick!)

Here are some lovely pictures of beautiful Dillingham
http://community.webshots.com/album/90372063YQavKx

WOAH! They should've installed more cameras! That place is scary! The Russians or Osama might invade and hold the salmon processors at gunpoint telling them to turn over all the salmon eggs. YIKES! Or they might fly a float plane into the water tower!

I can understand having them around the small boat harbor but peeping down an alleyway or on a park bench? There aren't enough police to monitor them all.

About the unheated restaurant, 0 feels warm when it's blowing wind and -40 outside!!

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Originally posted by lleechef

Here are some lovely pictures of beautiful Dillingham
http://community.webshots.com/album/90372063YQavKx

WOAH! They should've installed more cameras! That place is scary! The Russians or Osama might invade and hold the salmon processors at gunpoint telling them to turn over all the salmon eggs. YIKES! Or they might fly a float plane into the water tower!

I can understand having them around the small boat harbor but peeping down an alleyway or on a park bench? There aren't enough police to monitor them all.

About the unheated restaurant, 0 feels warm when it's blowing wind and -40 outside!!

Thanks for finding those photos. Yikes, I would not want to visit there. I'm guessing, since there was no snow on the ground or ice anywhere, that those pictures were taken in early summer. And, it still looks cold. BRRRRR.
I think the police chief has found a way to fleece money from the homeland security system to give himself (and his department) some new "toys." I don't think terrorists would spend too much time in Dillingham...But then, who knows, I don't really know a whole lot of terrorists.

This is a very scary story.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Stop the world: I want to get off.