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From small acorns do mighty trees grow… Thousands upon thousands of ULEZ cameras have been destroyed by the Bladerunners (way more than 5,000 last year alone)
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This is the way. And start egging the home of council employees who take down England or Union Flags.
And refuse service to anyone connected to the establishment political parties, the media or, increasingly, the police.
Know thine enemy.
Why are the United Lezbians putting up cameras in the first place?
I cannot condone illegal acts (he said in a loud carrying voice for all the totalitarian watchers out there) but I observe if people get fed up enough they will start pushing back. Whether it is cutting cameras down or putting flags up.
I drove from East Yorkshire to Sunderland and back today. Lots of England and Union flags on bridges and poles along the way. Politicians and local councillors are determined to misunderstand who the flags are intended to intimidate, not foreigners, but them.
On the subject of the cameras. In the absence of a peaceful non criminal route for their removal, taking them down by force would seem to be the only other option.
May I suggest a low tech option: a 2-3 foot piece of 3/8″ diam rebar! I suspect the camera’s scratch resistant coating won’t stand up to a firm thrust of some iron will!
No batteries required. Easily concealed or just tossed away!
@Stonyground
On the subject of the cameras. In the absence of a peaceful non criminal route for their removal,
I think all these cameras are terrible, but there IS a peaceful non criminal route for their removal. Convince enough people in the country that they are wrong and then vote for politicians that accept the views of the public and act accordingly. The problem is not the cameras, the problem is that it seems an awful lot of British people favor them. And that is the worrying thing: that the people are so compromised.
There are an awful lot of people who hate Amazon for their supposedly terrible working conditions. In the absence of a peaceful non criminal route to shut down such a “slave labour” camp would it be ok to burn the place down? Many lefties are horrified by statues to people they disagree with around in the public realm. But, in the absence of a peaceful, non criminal route to eliminate them is it OK to just have a mob tear them down? It seems hard to say no if you say the camera protesters can do something similar.
Perhaps there is some fundamental right in play here rather than just an administrative action. For example, even if you are in the minority using fair means or foul to defend your right to free speech seems reasonable to me. Objecting to road furniture or the enforcement of special road taxes doesn’t seem to fall into that category. And I don’t think you can argue that it is a privacy issue — after all, by definition, what you do in the public sphere cannot be private.
My heart is with the anarchists, but is seems a very slippery slope indeed.
No doubt not a popular view in these precincts, but there it is.
It is absolutely the same category.
Refusing to buy anything from Amazon is pretty straightforward. voting for politicians that accept the views of the public and act accordingly would be a bit more problematic, you would need to find some first. Genuine question as I actually don’t know, were the Ulez Zones proposed in any kind of manifesto and actually voted on?