Land of the watched, home of the spied upon
I live in the mountains – deep in the mountains – of Southwestern Virginia, far away from what most call civilization.
You’ve heard of the proverbial town with one stop light? Our county has only one stop light, one permanent one since a construction project on U.S. 221 added four temporary stoplights to two bridges that the Virginia Department of Transportation is resurfacing and cut down to one-lane.
Yet even in my little backwoods hick county, I’m under video surveillance many times a day.