The Need for Miniature Camcorders in the Home

This page was last updated on Sunday September 20, 2009

In matter of Domestic Violence it has become a she said he said situation and I what she says is always believed in our misandrious society.  I am now endorsing the use of miniature camcorders in homes of men who are being abused or could be abused by their wife or by other family members. These cameras are activated by voice, motion, body heat, or disruption of a signal. The camcorder time signal is based on Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). This is an atomic clock that has very stable characteristics and is based on both atomic and astronomical measurements. These camcorders have a built-in radio receiver that decodes the time signal from the national time base radio station of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The station is controlled by an atomic clock in Fort Collins, Colorado. Its accuracy and precision are millionth of a second (a microsecond).

Some might call this endorsement excessive. However, most spousal abuse of husbands is done out of the presence of witnesses. Even if there are witnesses, most would take the attitude that he deserved it; what did he do to her? However, a camcorder cannot lie when it is using UTC as its time stamp. Furthermore, battery backup units are used to maintain system power during electrical outages or deliberate disruption of power. This makes it harder for an abusive woman to falsely claim child abuse or spousal abuse.

No one wants to put a camera in a room where privacy is expected. However, many instances of abuse do occur while the husband is sleeping. One solution is to have separate bedrooms but that might not be practical. Another solution is a remote control device disables or enables the camera.

There are two types of alarm systems one type is hard wired and the type is wireless. Wireless units are useful in a home, in an apartment, or in a condominium. You may want check with the apartment owner or the landlord or the condominium association to determine what kind alarm system is approved. In hard wired homes, you may what to check with local authorities, such as the building inspector, to determine what kind of alarm system is approved. You may be required to have a building permit and an inspection local authorities.

Most home based camcorders use long play tape or DVR technology because DVR's can record and store 40 or more hours of information. Some manufacturers have also developed systems that record programs on special DVD's, discs of the same size as compact discs, but can hold far more high quality information.

Psychological Projection

Psychological Projection is the attribution of one's own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people or to objects. It is the externalization of blame, guilt, or responsibility as a defense against anxiety.  It is a defense mechanism in which the individual attributes their own unacceptable conduct to others. For an example Mary batters Bob but claims that Bob batters her.

To understand the process, consider that one person in a couple who has thoughts of adultery. Instead of dealing with these undesirable thoughts consciously, he or she subconsciously projects these feelings onto the other person, and begins to think that the other has thoughts of adultery and may be having an affair.  I add that many women who are having an affair claim domestic violence as an excuse to continue their adulterous affairs.  

In this sense, projection is related to denial, the refusal to acknowledge an external source of anxiety. Those who project deny a part of themselves cannot face their own feelings of infidelity and therefore project them onto the other person. The concept was anticipated by Friedrich Nietzsche: "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

Edward Steven Nunes