PRESS RELEASE - Protest Against Privatized Camera Surveillance System in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
I will be speaking at this event tomorrow, Saturday August 29th. I will not stand idly by while Orwellian surveillance schemes are implemented in my country. Where do you stand? by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
(libertarian)
Friday, August 28, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Saturday, August 29, 2009, the Citizens Against Public Surveillance (CAPS) is holding a large protest against the implementation of surveillance cameras deployed in Lancaster, PA, and is inviting all who want a voice in this matter to attend. CAPS is a recent offshoot of the Lancaster Coalition for Sensible Security (LCSS), and is organized to end the hasty deployment of the privately run, Orwellian surveillance system in a city of 55,000 people with a 25% poverty rate.
The CAPS protest will be held this Saturday at Farnum Park (Water & Conestoga Streets) at 1:00 pm on Saturday, August 29, 2009. The protesters will then march to Lancaster Square at 2:00 pm for the rest of their rally. The theme of the rally is - "Take the cameras down."
Renee' Baumgartner (CAPS) will speak in Lancaster Square, along with others that are concerned about the lack of accountability, oversight, and transparency for this system of 165 surveillance cameras. The system is designed to keep the public under constant general surveillance.
Jake Towne, 2010 candidate for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania's 15th District, will be speaking about his experiences with camera surveillance while he was living abroad in communist China and how this camera system is a blatant violation of our rights as protected by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Towne's website is TowneForCongress.com.
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Posted By: It Cant Happen Here
Date: 2009-09-06 22:41:38
Thank you Mr. Towne for speaking out against the fascist police state being constructed in Lancaster while politicians and the news media offer us political lollipops to appease us. Join the voices of all liberty loving Americans everywhere in saying, "take those cameras down!"
Posted By: No Name Supplied
Date: 2009-09-10 23:52:29
To its credit, the newspaper performed a background check on LCSC employees, and found that one employee had been arrested multiple gas stoves times for impersonating a public safety officer and also convicted for a similar crime. What some opposition members term “their worst concrete countertops nightmare” became a reality when it was noted that the employee was also charged with harassment after “waiting and following a Leola man on his way home from work, sending annoying laminate countertops e-mails and other methods of harassment”, as reported by the LNP. The group believes that someone in the LCSC should be held accountable.
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