Posted on 06/17/2010 8:39:14 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
A project to spy on two Muslim areas in Birmingham using more than 200 CCTV cameras has been dramatically halted after an investigation by the Guardian revealed it was a counterterrorism initiative.
Bags are being placed over the cameras, recently installed in the neighbourhoods of Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook, to reassure the community their movements are not being monitored while a "full and in-depth consultation" takes place.
In a joint statement last night, West Midlands police and Birmingham city council announced the cameras would not be turned on. They apologised for not being "more explicit" about the funding arrangements of the project, which stipulated they should be used to combat terrorism, a mistake they conceded may have "undermined public confidence".
But officials insisted the £3m project would go ahead following a retrospective public consultation, arguing the cameras would help reduce crime.
Under the initiative, Project Champion, two suburbs were to be monitored by a network of 169 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras – three times more than in the entire city centre. The cameras, which include covert cameras secretly installed in the street, form "rings of steel", meaning residents cannot enter or leave the areas without their cars being tracked. Data was to be stored for two years.
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May you wake to the call for morning prayer from the minarets.
Bitchification, works everywhere it is tried.
Gun the the head moment.
I hope the Brits have Amish neighborhoods. Perhaps they can relocate the cameras to one of those areas to monitor for terrorism signs among the Amish.
Bags over the cameras to avoid spying on a neighborhood full of bagged women.
Why bother?
One set of rules for death cultists, another set for normal people. Amazing what a railroad station bombing can do for your cause!
If the English cared about their citizens, they would let them arm themselves. But of course, that isn’t the case at all.
Apparently, they don't have citizens, only subjects.
In order to stop crime and terror all Brits had to be under surveillance. Now the groups most likely to commit said violence will not be watched. This isn’t 1984. Oceania was logical. This is anarcho-tyranny.
Citizens since the Nationality Act of 1981.
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