{"id":974,"date":"2011-06-06T01:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T06:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=974"},"modified":"2013-02-03T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T22:53:40","slug":"new-orleans-red-light-cameras-covered-up-by-anarchists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans: Red Light Cameras Covered Up By Anarchists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/nolaanarcha.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/red-light-cameras-covered-up-by.html\">Nola Anarcha<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently some anarchists covered up some of the notorious and hated red  light traffic cameras in New Orleans with black garbage bags and threw  leaflets in the air nearby. They anonymously sent in the video below. We  transcribed the text of the leaflet below because it is hard to read on  the video. This follows an <a href=\"http:\/\/anarchistnews.org\/?q=node\/12353\">arson attack<\/a> on a speed camera on Chartres St. last October, and angry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/crime\/index.ssf\/2010\/03\/red-light_cameras_face_legal_c.html\">comments<\/a> flooding NOLA.com after every traffic camera story. Cameras in Jefferson Parish have already been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2010\/01\/red-light_cameras_stop_snappin.html\">stopped<\/a>, and hopefully New Orleans will be next!<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wBimNvaTb3I'>video of the action<\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>EVER GET THE FEELING YOU&#8217;RE BEING WATCHED? <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>ALL THE FUCKING TIME. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Traffic  cameras show the total contempt that the government has for people. A  stack of tickets extorts payments from us. They threaten us with worse  if we don&#8217;t pay. And in the end surveillance doesn&#8217;t make us any safer,  it only illegalizes things that we were once capable of accomplishing  with our own good judgment. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Well,  we&#8217;re fucking sick of being manipulated by the incredulous gaze of  surveillance, so we&#8217;re putting a bag over the watchful eye of this  newest type of policing. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Against the gaze of the state! For self-determination!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em><strong> -Some anarchist<\/strong>s<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Nola Anarcha: Recently some anarchists covered up some of the notorious and hated red light traffic cameras in New Orleans with black garbage bags and threw leaflets in the air nearby. They anonymously sent in the video below. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[178,59],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actions","tag-new-orleans","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6456,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}