While working hard to get Pennsylvanians to join the class-action lawsuit against PennDot (May blog), I find myself ironically in the very city that is being deemed a "social experiment". We are now being considered the "most surveilled city in the nation", and I am watched 24 hours a day, just in case I may break the law! Facial recognition is being discussed, which makes me even more nervous as we try to move this lawsuit forward.
The LCSC is a private organization that is made up of prominent business citizens to run an "electronic neighborhood watch" program. Yes, our own citizens are spying on each other!
There is no escaping the fact that Lancaster may be the "make or break" city that may set the precedence for a surveillance society in this nation. What we do here and how we handle it will be watched around the nation. CBS and ABC are already in town getting ready to run stories on this. We do not know how they will slant it, but we do have one hero: Sam Ettaro. He single-handedly took on the City Council, the Mayor, and the LCSC (Lancaster Coalition Safety Commission). He asked the questions that no other media would, and helped bring many facts forward that we had not been able to get.
From RepublicMedia.tv, Sam is running this quick video, and on YouTube. Check out this site at www.republicmedia.tv, as he puts together a documentary on this issue out of Lancaster, PA. Visit his site for the updates on the Lancaster Camera saga.
There are currently 134 cameras in a 10-block radius! Here I take Sam on a tour of Lancaster City.
This video below speaks volumes that I am not the only one who has a problem with surveillance cameras!!
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