-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > youll like this > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [InTheShadows] Protesters turn tables on city's security cameras > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:57:48 -0600 > From: "Hilary A. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Hilary A. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Dan S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >From the Boston Globe, > http://www.boston.com/dailynews/266/region/Protesters_turn_tables_on_city:.s > > html > - > Protesters turn tables on city's security cameras > By Tom Hays, Associated Press, 09/23/99 13:41 > NEW YORK (AP) Big Brother, whether he likes or not, is watching Bill Brown. > > In the subway, parks and dark corners where government and businesses point > security cameras around Manhattan, Brown and his cohorts pop up like > annoying Little Brothers with props: crudely drawn placards cryptically > quoting Orwell ''We will meet in a place where there is no darkness'' and a > boom box sounding mock emergency broadcasts. > > ''America is now under martial law,'' one broadcast warns. ''Shut up. Be > happy. Obey all orders. Relax. Everything is done for you.'' > > Part performance art, part political protest, Brown's theatrics are the > work > of what he calls the Surveillance Camera Players. > > SCP is composed of about two dozen self-described anarchists. According to > their manifesto, members view hidden cameras as ''a tool of social control. > ... The group intends to explode the myth that only those who are doing > something wrong fear surveillance cameras.'' > > Brown, 40, is a media-friendly, chain-smoking subversive with a sense of > humor, a former literature professor who now gets by as a legal proofreader > on a graveyard shift. He views Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a ''mean bastard'' > who has turned City Hall into his own Ministry of Love, manipulating the > masses under the banner of ''public safety.'' > > The native New Yorker founded SCP in 1996 in response to the proliferation > of video surveillance around the city. > > ''It's hard not to view it all as a conspiracy,'' he said. > > SCP's early guerrilla productions mainly performed in subways until broken > up by police included rapid-fire, dumbed-down versions of ''1984,'' > ''Waiting for Godot'' and ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'' Since then, > the group has been a regular feature on an anarchist Website > www.panix.com/~notbored gotten international media coverage and started > writing its own plays. > > ''It began as a few people fooling around,'' Brown said. ''Now, we're a > serious group.'' > > The SCP has had no trouble being watched: A 1998 survey by the New York > Civil Liberties Union found more than 2,300 surveillance cameras trained on > public spaces in Manhattan. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey > alone reportedly operates more than 1,200 cameras throughout airports, > bridges, tunnels and terminals, most monitored from a control room in the > World Trade Center. > > The group's latest stage is popular Washington Square Park, a notorious > drug-dealing spot in the heart of Greenwich Village where police have > installed high-tech, remote-control cameras designed to look like ordinary > street lamps. Zoom lenses feed monitors watched by police officers in a > mobile command center at the park's south end. > > On a recent Saturday, the officers were treated to the premiere of > ''Headline News.'' The performance, a send-up of a newscast, included Brown > slowly banging a drum while other players silently flashed placards showing > a NATO bomb and titled ''World News,'' an assault rifle ''National News'' > and a horned-and-fanged Giuliani ''Local News.'' > > Passersby were handed fliers warning, ''You are being watched. ... Not only > can you and your movements be tracked wherever you are in this open-air > prison, but every one of your facial expressions is visible too.'' > > The mayor and police officials deny any sinister motives. They have > defended > the cameras' use in housing projects and other areas, touting them as an > effective and popular crime-fighting tool. Besides, Police Commissioner > Howard Safir has argued, ''You have no right to privacy in a public > place.'' > > In an interview, Brown disagreed. Rampant video surveillance, he argued, > infringes on a right New Yorkers hold dear: anonymity. > > ''We're in a place where people want to blend in,'' he said. ''It runs > against the very texture of New York. ... The society I would like is where > people police themselves, not where people police us by increasingly > impersonal means.'' > > Asked about a magazine article describing him as ''mildly paranoid,'' Brown > set the record straight. > > ''I'm VERY paranoid,'' he said. > > -- > Dan S > > [ISML] Insane Science Mailing List > LIST MODERATOR: DAN S. > To subscribe: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/isml > > --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > Share your special moments with family and friends- send PHOTO Greetings > at Zing.com! 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