Big Brother is Watching in South Down

Big Brother is watching in South Down

Following the erection of a number of CCTV cameras in Newry, Warrenpoint and Kilkeel the South Down 32 County Sovereignty Movement has warned political activists in the area to be extremely vigilant and has rejected claims by supporters of the project that it is not intended to spy on individuals.
Spokesperson for the South Down committee, Rory Moore told The Sovereign Nation that “A number of people have contacted us already voicing their concerns about these new cameras which we view as simply an extension of British state security and a normalisation of their influence here. It has been claimed that these cameras are managed by the Newry and Mourne district council but are to be manned from the Brownlow RUC/PSNI barracks in Lurgan, not only that but the views of residents living near the cameras were not only ignored but in most instances were not sought in the first place. As we know only too well there is not separation of civic and political policing in the six counties and that all policing is political while a country is under occupation. We are convinced that these surveillance cameras will be used to spy on political activists as much as they are used to identify youths fighting on a Saturday night. There is now both overt and covert surveillance in South Down with these new CCTV cameras supposed to be the acceptable face of the British security apparatus. They are not acceptable to the people of South Down nor anywhere else in Ireland, they are just cheaper to run than those covert cameras such as the one uncovered in Kilcoo recently” Mr Moore concluded by reiterating his warning to political activists to be vigilant “ It is vital that political activists remain aware that they are being watched and do not allow the apparent normality of such surveillance equipment to fool them”