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berlin activists start campaing to destroy surveilancecamera's ahead of police summit
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German activists start campaign to destroy surveillance cameras
By Samantha Kimmey
Sunday, January 13, 2013 21:05 EST
Topics: security cameras ♦ surveillance cameras
German activists are attempting to destroy security cameras in anticipation of the European Police Congress in Berlin in February, according to Michael Ebeling, an opponent of public surveillance writing for France 24′s The Observers.
The group organizing the actions, CAMOVER, believe such cameras lead police to discriminate and use stereotypes in search of criminals and criminal activity. They are encouraging people to participate in the “game” until Feb. 19, when the congress convenes.
A debate over surveillance cameras was ignited in late 2012 after an attempted bomb attack in a Bonn train station, when cameras did not store recordings of the station and so police had no images of potential suspects or of the bomb being planted.
The country’s Interior Ministry claims the cameras have been shown to reduce crime by almost 20 percent.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
This has been something I've been interested in actually, a sustained campaign to destroy and/or severely hinder the survelliance state.
I think that a lot of non-radicals would support such an effort, too.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
Can anyone fill me in on what happens at the end of the video? Is it the guy in orange who was on the train with them that starts chasing them? Or is it some type of law enforcement waiting for them to get off?
Good work, however.
There are some pretty cheap 1500+mw infrared laser diodes available online, and I've been thinking of picking one up with a lens assembly for testing what they can do to those surveillance cameras that I legally own (and can therefore legally destroy).
The risk of eye damage would be pretty significant though..
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Most high-end CCTV cameras have recalibrating intensity filters against this sort of thing as well as IR-cut filters avoid being blotted out (temporarily) by laserpointers.
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree..."
- John Milton -
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
- Amadeo Bordiga
Yup, piece of cardboard on a stick, or even better a spraycan on a stick are still the most reliable sollutions. Although the paint filled fire extinguisher used in the vid is dear to me too..
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Epic anarchist activism!
Petty vandalism isn't a revolutionary act. It's an infantile act of individualism.
What is this expected to achieve?
So what have you been doing lately?
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Not engaging in ad hominen for a start. What I have or have not been doing is not relevant.
Protecting radicals from police surveillance (thus giving them an opportunity to increase the struggle), before an upcoming police summit, is totally 'infantile individualism.'
I'm glad you agree.
Answering tongue and cheek, with tongue and cheek?
Wise words.
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree..."
- John Milton -
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
- Amadeo Bordiga
You're right, of course.
I should be winning workers to the cause be acting like a juvenile delinquent.
I will abandon my work in the labour movement and community forthwith.
Dude, are you a cop? These 'delinquents' are saving many people a lot of fucking trouble.
'despite being a comedy, there's a lot of truth to this, black people always talking shit behind white peoples back. Blacks don't give a shit about white, why do whites give them so much "nice" attention?'
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Apparently he doesn't care about workers being fucked over by the state for engaging in class struggle.
No, they're bringing the movement into disrepute, they're not saving us trouble they're causing it.
Undercover cops don't condemn such actions, as often as not they're the ones carrying them out.
When blows are struck between protesters and cops outside this kind of meeting, whether the first blow is struck by uniformed cops, agent provocateurs or some hot-headed idiot who thinks he's a revolutionary, they point to shit like this and say, "see, they came looking for trouble!"
And clearly in the case of some they will be right.
The rest of us, those of us who try to propose non-reformist solutions to the problems faced by workers, do so against the force of such embarrassing associations.
I'm sorry, I didn't reallise the German proletariat had resolved to resort to vandalising public transport as a means of class struggle.
Last edited by Clarion; 20th January 2013 at 21:25. Reason: responding to more than one post
Generally radicals are members of the working class, seeing as how given their views, they tend not to reinvest capital and employ wage labor. So yes it would appear that a certain segment of the German proletariat has done just that.
Dude were fucking communists, were never going to get good publicity. Get over it. I'm sick of seeing people go on railing about this.
