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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Video: Red Light Cameras Covered Up By Anarchists
 

Recently some anarchists covered up some of the notorious and hated red light traffic cameras in New Orleans with black garbage bags and threw leaflets in the air nearby. They anonymously sent in the video below. We transcribed the text of the leaflet below because it is hard to read on the video. This follows an arson attack http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/12353 on a speed camera on Chartres St. last October, and angry comments http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/03/red-light_cameras_face_legal_c.html flooding NOLA.com after every traffic camera story. Cameras in Jefferson Parish have already been stopped http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/red-light_cameras_stop_snappin.html, and hopefully New Orleans will be next!

(Ban the Cams note:  We have edited it for content).

EVER GET THE FEELING YOU'RE BEING WATCHED?
ALL THE FU***** TIME.
 

Traffic cameras show the total contempt that the government has for people. A stack of tickets extorts payments from us. They threaten us with worse if we don't pay. And in the end surveillance doesn't make us any safer, it only illegalizes things that we were once capable of accomplishing with our own good judgment.
 

Well, we're fu***** sick of being manipulated by the incredulous gaze of surveillance, so we're putting a bag over the watchful eye of this newest type of policing.
 

Against the gaze of the state! For self-determination!

                                                                             -Some anarchists

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