These Silver Spring residents awake to a surveillance camera - and - flashing lights outside their bedroom windows (Video)

Big Brother is upping the ante in downtown Silver Spring. As I reported earlier, Montgomery County has placed a surveillance camera outside the Thayer & Spring apartments, level with some residents' windows. Under remote control by an unscrupulous operator, the camera could theoretically be rotated to face the apartments, and peer into windows. But as night falls over Silver Spring, something else has come to "light." Alternating police-style red and blue lights flash non-stop just feet away from bedroom windows. A camera, and a neon motel sign-on-steroids, outside your bedroom window? Downtown Silver Spring residents are indeed getting the benefit of their taxpayer dollars!