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Masquerade: Foiling & playing with the UK's intrusive/omnipresent "Surveillance"

j.levine | 21.02.2006 20:46 | Anti-militarism | London

Giving Halloween everyday to Big Brother!!

Maybe the people of the UK who are frustrated and pissed off by the ever-present "security cameras" on their streets and in their subways and shops etc., could start going about the streets incognito,and wearing facial disquises and masks to "frustrate and piss off" the Big Brother who is constantly watching them! Also people could print up and distribute "george Bush" and "Tony Blair" and "Jack Straw" paper masks - and masks of other onerous,faschist UK & world politicians. It would be a real hoot!

j.levine

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Solidarity with this idea

21.02.2006 22:12

This is good. See you on the streets. Or, alternatively, not!

The Great Masked Ball of 2006.

Link on the weblog tonight -  http://blairwitch.typepad.com
See list "ACTIVATE, MOBILISE, ORGANISE"

And holler back with more ideas like this.

Matthew Cuffe
mail e-mail: matthewcuffe@gmail.com

42000000 CCTV cameras in the UK

21.02.2006 22:52

Once you have your mask on, start stealing security cameras. Now that's funny ! Whatever Britains 4.2 million cameras are for, they are not to stop crime as they are known to be ineffectual in that department.
I include this particlar link to this article because the "Tell us what you think" takes you to a bunch of right wing security professionals say the report was an underestimate if anything.


British Study Says CCTV Cameras Don't Deter Crime - AP

"An estimated 4.2 million cameras now observe the country's 60 million people going about their everyday business, from getting on a bus to lining up at the bank to driving around London. It's widely estimated that the average Briton is scrutinized by 300 cameras a day. For the Home Office-funded study, academics from the University of Leicester studied 14 closed-circuit TV systems in a variety of settings, including town centers, parking lots, hospitals and residential areas. Only the parking lot scheme was shown to cause a fall in crime. Previous studies of the effectiveness of CCTVs have come to similar conclusions. "

 http://securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=3189&siteSection=306

Danny

or...

21.02.2006 22:59

Why don't we all join the PRS and demand performance royalties from the offending companies?

M

Hall of Sham Masqurade!

22.02.2006 03:00

I wonder if I wore a Ronald Biggs mask near the train stn.mask if anyone would notice? How about a "2-faced" Blair mask with Ronnie Kray on the back? theres so many possibilities!

Bob Yob