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arson attack on company who put cctv in schools

counter-surveillance cores | 23.10.2012 10:42

last night fire erupted in the tranquillity of bristols well-to-do redland area, targeting a marked vehicle of Standfast Ltd. besides the usual functions that led us to attack a company invested in "security" (as always, securing the sanctity of private property in mass society) one of their many cctv contracts in bristol, bath, avon, somerset and gloucestershire is both state and private schools, where as you can read in the newspapers even the toilets are no escape from the cameras.

daily submission under impersonal institutions rarely comes naturally. after the nuclear family, the education system at all stages is instrumental in adapting the free child to the civilized world of workplaces, malls and (other) prisons that todays youth are destined for. constant surveillance has proven a most effective step in this domesticating process, kids learning to selfregulate under the assumption that they're permanently being watched, and this has been made to seem normal by reality tv, the saturation of control technology in the dead synthetic urban enviroment (supplied by the likes of Standfast Ltd.), and the atomised crowd of a generation filled with selfish fear of punishment or repremand.

but it is often still the young people who are least destroyed by this onslaught and who still find themselves impelled to refuse the system (like the riots last summer and scattered moments of revolt everyday since and before). this is just a reminder - WHEN YOU HIT A LENS IT WILL BREAK LIKE ANYTHING ELSE! so shouts to youth rebellion against society, the claimants of the recent attack on security vehicles in nottingham, and everyone else committed to the timeless crime of freedom!

strength for Gustavo Quiroga, held in immigration detention after the Delta squat eviction in Thessaloniki, and for the Gremlin Alley resisters in cardiff!
strength for the anarchists non-cooperating with the grand jury in the american northwest, and for the ones who fled from it!
strength for the street fighters held for the march29 battles in Barcelona, and Carolina whos accused of burning a Starbucks that inspiring day!

anarchy here, now and always -- yours in war, counter-surveillance cores.

counter-surveillance cores

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What else can be done

23.10.2012 15:55

I don't agree with cameras in toilets, but what else do you suggest to stop the wave of robberies in schools? Many schools are having computer equipment and other electronics stolen?

The issue seems to be where the cameras are being placed. Placing them inside (aside from hallways) seems intrusive. But having them on the outside of buildings is OK by me.

Richard
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Reason for cameras in schools

23.10.2012 20:02

In reply to the above commenter, cameras in schools aren't about theft - they're about control. In the school I used to go to, they were used any time a pupil was accused of breaking the rules. Loads of schools these days (thankfully I got out just as it was getting really bad) have reinforced doors that lock students in during classes, ID cards with chips to monitor where kids are at all times, and cameras in every space they can put them!

(this isn't to say that theft from your own school isn't an act of rebellion too)

Not a big fan of insurrectionary type actions, but seriously, fuck cctv!

YoungPerson


Attack on the clones.

26.10.2012 10:56

You see, it used to be the case that education was free and so schools were looked on in the same ways as hospitals. If they were vandalised then the whole community was up in arms. Now, the primary and secondary schools are seen as profiting from a child's need for education so they are seen as being businesses more than a critical component of a child's development. The role of a school in the community isn't seen as being so valuable as it once was.

Putting CCCTV cameras in a school is more about taking advantage of public fear than security of the children. When a school gets its budget at the start of a financial year the headteacher will be bombarded with junk mail from companies keen to get a slice of the pie. Security companies are no different. They will terrorise the headteacher into believing he must have CCCTV in his school even if only to catch pupils stealing pencils. Its these companies who convince the teaching staff the pupils will be feeling safer if these cameras are installed. In reality these cameras achieve very little. Either the person caught can't be identified or the cameras werent operational.

There have been a few instances where they were effective...but in the vast majority of cases CCCTV is a glorious waste of time and money.

If a headteacher demands his school install them, its usually because he's got a deal going with some company or other. Its very rarely about the safety of the staff and pupils themselves.

anonymous


Education is selection for obedience

26.10.2012 11:12

I agree with the above commenters and would add that all that security stuff is also to condition children to think "The Security State" is 'normal'.

Chimpsky


well done

29.10.2012 23:18

good action, keep it up. stay free.

fran