Town Hall Meeting To Oppose Blanket Video Surveillance Of Lancaster, PA

There will be a town hall meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to educate the public about the threat to our freedoms posed by the round-the-clock, blanket video surveillance of our city. The surveillance is being run by an unaccountable, non-governmental agency called the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition (LCSC). Opposition is being led by the Lancaster Coalition for Sensible Security (LCSS), a working group of the Lancaster Coalition for Peace & Justice.

This extreme and unaccountable surveillance of law-abiding US citizens has received news coverage nationwide including by the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as by Keith Olbermann.

The town hall meeting is open to the public and will be held Sunday, July 12, 2009, beginning at 2:15 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 538 West Chestnut Street, Lancaster. Representatives of the LCSC have been invited to participate and they and their opponents each will be given time to present their cases to the public and then will field questions from the audience.

Baptist Pastor Was Beaten & Tased by Border Patrol - INSIDE the US

A 'border patrol' between two US states?? This is a bizarre story, to say the least, and a deeply troubling one, at its worst; especially in light of how we are under more and more 'security state' surveillance and we could be subject to more of these 'patrols' and searches.

Even right here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a coalition of government agencies and private donors are putting up what will be the largest video surveillance system in the country for a city of Lancaster's size. More on that soon.

Meanwhile, "Papers please!!"

The first video was made by Pastor Steven Anderson just after he was released by the police on the night of April 14, 2009:



Here are excerpts of a sermon that Anderson gave soon after the incident: