Surveillance Cameras

Government using Robot Dragonfly's to Surveil Political Activists (Washington Post)

Posted October 9th, 2007 by LoyalNine
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Honestly, Federal Government... Come on.

Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.


"I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects."


Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too.


"I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' "

"Resisting, Subverting and Destroying the Apparatus of Surveillance and Control": An Interview with Mike Davis

Posted September 11th, 2007 by Anonymous
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Voices of Resistance from Occupied London | There is nothing comparable at all in the U.S. to the apparatus of surveillance that exists in London. Even CCTV cameras are only recently becoming an issue in the U.S. Total surveillance of down town areas of American cities is something I wrote about in the early nineties but only applied to tiny areas, a few acres in down town Los Angeles for example. If Giuliani does become president we will get closer to the idea of having total surveillance and control in the city centre but London is at least one if not two generations ahead of the United States.

New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown (NY Times)

Posted July 9th, 2007 by Anonymous
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"If completed this program would include license plate readers and 3,000 security cameras below Canal Street."


By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring cars moving through Lower Manhattan, the beginning phase of a London-style surveillance system that would be the first in the United States.


The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, as the plan is called, will resemble London’s so-called Ring of Steel, an extensive web of cameras and roadblocks designed to detect, track and deter terrorists. British officials said images captured by the cameras helped track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005 and the car bomb plots last month.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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