What Happened When I Tried to Get Some Answers About the Creepy Police Watchtower Monitoring OWS
Submitted on November 6, 2011
By Nick Turse - AlterNet
Imagine a 7-foot by 6-foot metal box, with blacked out windows on its four sides, bristling with cameras, spotlights...atop spindly hydraulic legs that allow it to sit on the ground or rise up two stories. Inside that climate-controlled cube is a control panel with switches to turn on the lights, a joystick to raise and lower the unit, and various other remote controls that...[can be used] to direct the cameras and watch their feeds on video screens...
